The “Surrender Caucus” within the Republican Party will go down in infamy as weak and ineffective “guardians” of our Nation, who were willing to accept the certification of fraudulent presidential numbers! This claim about election fraud is disputed Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump 45th President of the United States of America Washington, DC Vote.DonaldJTrump.com
All 10 living ex-defense secretaries: The election is over. Trying to use the military to dispute the result would be dangerous. The Washington Post @washingtonpost Democracy Dies in Darkness. Washington, DC washingtonpost.com
Adding my voice to others calling on pro-democracy Americans to stay off the streets of DC this week as Trump and his allies attempt to mobilize provocative demonstrations against the election results. Please do not take the bait and become part of the problem. We’ve already won. Evan McMullin @EvanMcMullin Executive Director of @StandUpRepublic. Former: CIA ops officer, GOP policy director, independent presidential candidate. press@standuprepublic.comSalt Lake City standuprepublic.com
I will be there. Historic day! Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump 45th President of the United States of America Washington, DC Vote.DonaldJTrump.com
I was talking to a friend yesterday and she is worried about January 6th and the damage that will be done to the remnants of our democracy. It is scary but I also think that the press in blowing this out of proportion. I don’t think we are talking about a huge turnout here and, I think, there is an excellent chance Trump will not show. I know he said he would be there but the number of things, such as a replacement health plan for ObamaCare or One Trillion dollars in infrastructure improvements, that both Donald Trump and President Trump have said he would do in the future and didn’t must number over several hundred.
At the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017, there were somewhere between 50 and 250 – depending on whose numbers you trust – white supremacists including members of the alt-right, neo-Confederates, neo-fascists, white nationalists, neo-Nazis, and Klansmen. That doesn’t mean they aren’t dangerous, one asshole who killed a counter protester and wounded 39 more is now spending like in jail without possibility of parole (and, so far, President Trump hasn’t pardoned him). If ten times that many people show up, that is still not very many.
I may be wrong, there are a lot of very angry people out there and they are being stirred up by Trump but I don’t think they are the real danger, I think the irresponsible Republican party leaders who are trying to join the cause are the real problem. I hope they are held accountable. In the meantime, I would like to end with one of my favorite General Ulysses S. Grant quotes.
After the second night at Goliad, Benjamin and I started to make the remainder of the journey alone. We reached Corpus Christi just in time to avoid “absence without leave.” We met no one not even an Indian–during the remainder of our journey, except at San Patricio. A new settlement had been started there in our absence of three weeks, induced possibly by the fact that there were houses already built, while the proximity of troops gave protection against the Indians. On the evening of the first day out from Goliad, we heard the most unearthly howling of wolves, directly in our front. The prairie grass was tall and we could not see the beasts, but the sound indicated that they were near. To my ear, it appeared that there must have been enough of them to devour our party, horses and all, at a single meal. The part of Ohio that I hailed from was not thickly settled, but wolves had been driven out long before I left. Benjamin was from Indiana, still less populated, where the wolf yet roamed over the prairies. He understood the nature of the animal and the capacity of a few to make believe there was an unlimited number of them. He kept on towards the noise, unmoved. I followed in his trail, lacking moral courage to turn back and join our sick companion. I have no doubt that if Benjamin had proposed returning to Goliad, I would not only have “seconded the motion” but have suggested that it was very hard-hearted in us to leave Augur sick there in the first place; but Benjamin did not propose turning back. When he did speak it was to ask: “Grant, how many wolves do you think there are in that pack?” Knowing where he was from, and suspecting that he thought I would over-estimate the number, I determined to show my acquaintance with the animal by putting the estimate below what possibly could be correct and answered: “Oh, about twenty,” very indifferently and rode on.
In a minute we were close upon them, and before they saw us. There were just TWO of them. Seated upon their haunches, with their mouths close together, they had made all the noise we had been hearing for the past ten minutes. I have often thought of this incident since when I have heard the noise of a few disappointed politicians who had deserted their associates. There are always more of them before they are counted.