Sempiternal
Adjective
Latin, 15th century
Eternal and unchanging; everlasting.
Example: Despite this year’s political chaos, I have sempiternal faith in the decency of average citizens.
Video of the Week – November 14, 2020
Former U.S. Congresswoman Michele Bachmann and 2012 Republican presidential candidate, put out this video offering prayer points to God to “smash the delusion” that Joe Biden is president. She also prayed to God to reveal that Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats did not win the House of Representatives, and that Chuck Schumer is trying to steal the U.S. Senate. As a presidential candidate, Bachmann said she would still obey her husband.
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Tweet of the Week – November 14, 2020
Eric Trump, Donald Trump’s second-oldest son, had a message for Minnesota voters – one week after the elections.
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Memo of the Week – November 14, 2020
On November 9, U.S. Attorney General William Barr sent this memo to U.S. attorneys across the country, authorizing an exception to U.S. Justice Department guidelines, and telling top federal prosecutors they could “pursue substantial allegations of voting and vote tabulation irregularities prior to the certification of elections in your jurisdictions in certain cases.”
As a Trump man, Barr is prolonging the presidential elections by continually howling about voter fraud.
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Most Delusional Quote of the Week – November 14, 2020
“I think at this point, it probably will make its way up to the Supreme Court. Right now, we’re at the district court level. And we will see how they rule in Pennsylvania and on our upcoming lawsuits here in Michigan and elsewhere. And I think it’s really anyone’s guess where this goes.”
– White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany, regarding Trump’s legal challenges to the recent elections
An older, openly-gay friend of mine who served in U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War, refers to McEnany as “Pussy Galore”, the fictional villainess in Ian Fleming’s Goldfinger who turned a failing troupe of female trapeze artists into world-class cat burglars. I’m starting to see why. Honor Blackman portrayed “Pussy Galore” in the 1964 film version. Fleming later said she was a lesbian “cured” by the charms of James Bond.
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Worst Quotes of the Week – November 14, 2020
“Whistleblowers and tipsters should turn over their evidence to local law enforcement. Anyone who provides information that leads to an arrest and final conviction of voter fraud will be paid a minimum of $25,000.”
– Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, offering $1 million from his own campaign to anyone anywhere in the U.S. who can prove voter fraud
Jim Clancy, former chairman of the Texas Ethics Commission, said handing out large sums of reward money may be improper if it’s being used to help prove Trump’s baseless claims of voter fraud.
Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman had this response:
“Let me tell you something. Every Christian, every pastor out there that voted for Joe Biden last night, you have brought a curse upon yourself and your family, your children, and your children’s children down to the third and fourth generation, and you need to repent. You cannot call yourself a Christian and call yourself a [Democrat] and vote for Biden. You are implementing the dark agenda. Satan’s agenda. The kingdom of darkness. You are not supporting the kingdom of God. And if you cannot see that, if you do not repent, judgment will fall upon you, I believe, and your family and your children’s children down the third and fourth generation.”
– Mark Taylor, QAnon conspiracy theorist and self-described “firefighter prophet”, on Christians who voted for Joe Biden
“We have 11 million people in our country who have already had COVID. We should tell them to celebrate. We should tell them to throw away their masks, go to restaurants, live again because these people are now immune. But Dr. Fauci doesn’t want to admit to any of that. Dr. Fauci’s like, ‘Oh, woe is me.’ Until the election occurs, and now, maybe he’ll be changing his attitude.”
– Sen. Rand Paul, encouraging Americans to get rid of their face masks
“You can’t say that marriage is a union between one man and one woman. Until very recently, that’s what the vast majority of Americans thought. Now it’s considered bigotry. That this would happen after our decision in Obergefell should not have come as a surprise. Yes, the opinion of the court included words meant to calm the fears of those who cling to traditional views of marriage. But I could see, and so did the other justices in dissent, where the decision would lead.”
– Associate U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, about the landmark same-sex marriage case, in a speech to the Federalist Society
Alito noted that such cases are tantamount to the oppression of religious liberties.
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Best Quotes of the Week – November 14, 2020
“Whoa, whoa, whoa. I just think we have to be very clear…She’s charging the other side as welcoming fraud and illegal voting. Unless she has more details to back that up, I can’t in good countenance continue showing you this.”
– Neil Cavuto, FOX news anchor, interrupting a briefing by White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany
McEnany had launched into a litany of conspiracy-laden allegations, accusing the Democrats of facilitating illegal voting and rigging the election to beat Donald Trump.
“I have no intention of leaving. This is an important job. I’ve been doing it now for a very long time. I’ve been doing it under six presidents. It’s an important job, and my goal is to serve the American public no matter what the administration is.”
– Dr. Anthony Fauci, on CNN
“I’m very concerned what he might do in his remaining 70 days in office. Is he going to take some type of military action? Is he going to release some type of information that could, in fact, threaten our national security interests? If Vice President Pence and the cabinet had an ounce of fortitude and spine and patriotism, I think they would seriously consider invoking the 25th Amendment and pushing Donald Trump out because he is just very unpredictable now.”
– John Brennan, former CIA Director, on Cuomo Prime Time, November 10
“My evolution started when the president doubled down in the lead-up to the 2020 election on his charges that our elections are rigged and fraudulent in a way that he hadn’t previously. It became a systemic attack made completely without evidence, aimed at undermining a basic pillar of our democracy. I know there’s no evidence for systemic fraud because I had spent the better part of every election for four decades working in Republican poll-watcher programs and elections day operations. For the president of the United States, the leader of the free world and head of the Republican Party, to make completely unsubstantiated charges about our elections being rigged is not right.”
– Ben Ginsberg, Republican “super-lawyer”, explaining why he has defied his party and condemned Trump’s refusal to concede
Ginsberg had been involved in the 2000 presidential recount debacle.
“There is no loss from him getting the briefings. If that’s not occurring by Friday, I will step in as well and be able to push them and to say this needs to occur so that regardless of the outcome of the election, whichever way that it goes, people can be ready for that actual task.”
– Sen. James Lankford, Republican of Oklahoma, declaring he will intervene if President-elect Joe Biden doesn’t start receiving security briefings by November 13
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Done with That!
Is it over? Maybe? I know COVID-19 is still here; lingering in the air like burnt popcorn. But this year’s elections? Alas, have all those campaigns shrunk back into the gutters from whence they came? Has it all finally come to an end?
Well…no, it hasn’t. On the White House front, Herr Trump hasn’t – won’t – concede! So, as the nation eagerly awaits his administration’s demise, I feel certain of one thing. NO MORE FUCKING POLITICAL EMAILS!
Or at least fewer of them. American politics descended into the morass of anger and hate years ago; becoming a subset of demonology. Whereas I was once highly engaged in political campaigns – at least as a voter and eager news watcher – I have grown as cynical as most everybody else. While some relatives, friends and acquaintances of mine supplanted images of themselves on Facebook with their preferred candidate, I quickly began deleting large numbers of political-oriented emails from my daily inbox. I didn’t truly read them anyway. With so much personal family drama and job seeking these past few years, I often found myself with little time to read what I really wanted. I know political campaigns need more money than substance to function. It most cases it’s like one giant episode of the Kardashian clan. Is there a purpose to any of this?
The frequent opponent-bashing is my biggest grievance. How is it that sullying the reputation of your adversary has become more important than highlighting your own record? If you can do no better than slaughter the other person in effigy, why are you seeking this particular office?
That’s why many of my fellow Americans have grown cynical and pessimistic right along with me. They see the futility of it all. It makes no sense. Candidates for public office should always begin by detailing their own accomplishments and criticize their rivals at the very end – and only if they have the facts to substantiate their claims.
But with the close of the 2020 election season – from the presidency on down to local sheriff – I hope my email inbox won’t get stuffed with myriad political emails; the kind I either just simply delete or send to the spam folder – requests to sell me a reverse mortgage, ads for Chinese Viagra and offers from lonely Ukrainian housewives to be mine forever (although the latter two can seem enticing).
Regardless, I feel we all can move forward – until… AAAH!!! 2024!!!
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Veteran’s Day 2020
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