Senator Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) and Senator David Perdue (R-GA), wave during a campaign event at the Olde Blind Dog Irish Pub, in Milton, Georgia, U.S., December 21, 2020.REUTERS/Al Drago/File Photo
There has been some confusion about the catalyst behind this morning's sudden market selloff which followed promptly after the S&P hit a fresh all time high.
While there has been no single, definitive news catalyst, the answer for the risk weakness is to be found in Georgia, which goes to the polls in special run-off elections for its U.S. Senate seats.
As a reminder, if Democrats win both, then the Senate will be split 50-50, and they will control it thanks to the vice president’s casting vote.
So why is Georgia suddenly a concern?
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Update #1: U.S. Senate control, and Biden's agenda, at stake as Georgia runoff elections loom (Reuters)
Update #2: Explainer: How investors view the Georgia U.S. Senate runoff (Reuters)
WNU Editor: The media has gone all in for the Democrat candidates .... Why Georgia Needs Two New Senators (Rolling Stone). The betting markets are predicting a Democrat sweep. The Democrat Party is boasting 100,000 new members since the November elections. The Republican Party leadership in Georgia appears to be more focused on battling President Trump than putting their energies into the Senate race
As an outsider looking in .... this does not look for Republican Senator David Perdue, and it definitely does not good for Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler. Here is an easy prediction. If the Democrats sweep both Senate seats tomorrow, the US markets are going to have a very bad week.
But the markets should be up, because dementia Joe is our hair sniffer and saviour!
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Trump told Raffensperger – who rejected the demand – that such corruption is merited because he really won the state by "hundreds of thousands of votes."
The claim is, of course, hogwash. But the fact that Trump is still trying so hard to filch a second term and the fact that so many Republicans are still playing along despite Trump’s conduct is one of the biggest stories of the century so far.
What Trump is doing with the help of many members of his party is certainly the most historically significant part of his presidency – more than an impeachment, more than judicial appointments or any piece of policy. It is unprecedented and deals with matters central to the survival of the republic
This is truly Trump’s legacy project, and its disposition will have a great deal to say about the future of a badly divided Republican Party and also our capacity as Americans for self-governance in the era of brain-dead partisanship and easy disinformation.
Still lying.
DeleteIn fact, a national coalition of election security officials described the general election as "the most secure in American history," per USA TODAY.
ReplyDelete"There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised," they concluded.
The coalition — which included the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the National Association of State Election Directors — also noted that all states with close results had paper records of each vote.
"This is an added benefit for security and resilience," they wrote. "This process allows for the identification and correction of any mistakes or errors."
It's clerky and he's still lying.
DeleteYeah I saw that. He'll never live down his involvement with that male student. Too many sources for him to deny. The faculty lounge days probably seem far far away.
ReplyDeleteDominion plans to sue Sidney Powell, doesn't rule out Trump
ReplyDeleteRight-wing media scramble to spin Trump’s threatening phone call with Georgia election officials
ReplyDeleteCharlie Kirk calls on Mike Pence to unilaterally discard state electors
James O'Keefe and Project Veritas spent 2020 trying to undermine the election. They failed.
On Fox, Mark Levin says any Republican member of Congress who refuses to overthrow election results is “shredding the Constitution”
ReplyDeleteFox host lashes out at Republicans who are speaking out against Trump's coup
"Trump manages to distill down to a 10-minute monologue what would take the average person years to pull together,” said Joan Donovan, research director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.
ReplyDeleteDonovan noted that many of the baseless claims floated by the president have been embraced in recent weeks by pro-Trump media.
“Everything from fakes, forgeries, and machine hacking to collusion across parties, it's all laid out in detail with rapid fluidity,” Donovan said, noting the conspiracy theories laid out in the call “are very popular on rightwing media like Parler and Newsmax.”
Trump “pulled together all the major talking points,” Donovan said.
Clerky and his little band are on a tear again. I wonder if clerky knows how his IP is being used?
ReplyDeleteOf course he knows.
DeleteAlexander Keyssar, leading historian of U.S. democracy, issues an urgent warning
ReplyDeleteThe District has mobilized the National Guard and will have every city police officer on duty Tuesday and Wednesday to handle protests of the November presidential election, which Mayor Muriel E. Bowser said may include people looking to instigate violence.
ReplyDeleteBowser (D) has asked D.C. residents to stay away from downtown Washington on both days while members of far-right groups, including the Proud Boys, amass to falsely claim President Trump was reelected.
Trump — who lost both the popular and electoral-college vote to President-elect Joe Biden — has continued to dispute the results, without evidence, and is encouraging his supporters to attend the rallies.
He has said he might appear at Wednesday’s demonstration at the Ellipse, just outside the White House, which is timed to coincide with Congress’s vote to certify the election results — a formality that this year will be a fraught and divisive process.
“People are allowed to come into our city to participate in First Amendment activities,” Bowser said Monday. “We will not allow people to incite violence, intimidate our residents, or cause destruction in our city.”
Revealed: David Perdue bought bank stocks after meeting financial officials
ReplyDeleteRaffensperger calls Trump 'just plain wrong' after election call
The clerky clan is a little sensitive, somebody must have hit a nerve. Let's see what alias and cut and paste job he/they come up with next!
ReplyDeleteThey can't get around everyone knows they cheated and lied. Watch'em wriggle, it's pretty funny.
DeleteEveryone should be shocked by Trump's Georgia phone call but guess who isn't?
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Clever clerky uses a new alias! Too bad he's lied before, is lying now, and will lie in the future. Clerky is the great example amorality.
ReplyDeleteshould clerky use your manly name? anonymouse anonymous anonymouse
ReplyDeleteThe Trump Era Could Only End In a Final Attack on Democracy
2/ Trump’s call to Georgia’s secretary of state may have violated laws that prohibit interference in federal or state elections. Brad Raffensperger said that while it was unlikely his office would open an investigation into the call with Trump, he suggested that a criminal probe could still be launched by an Atlanta-area district attorney. Raffensperger added, “I understand that the Fulton County district attorney wants to look at it. Maybe that’s the appropriate venue for it to go.” A pair of House Democrats, meanwhile, asked FBI Director Christopher Wray to open a criminal probe, believing that Trump “engaged in solicitation of, or conspiracy to commit, a number of election crimes.” (New York Times / Politico / NBC News / The Guardian / NPR)
ReplyDelete3/ A top election official in Georgia accused Trump’s legal team of “intentionally misleading” voters about voter fraud. In a press conference, Gabriel Sterling, a Georgia voting system implementation manager, systematically refuted Trump’s already-debunked claims of voter fraud, saying “This is all easily, provably false. Yet the president persists, and by doing so undermines Georgians’ faith in the election system.” Sterling added: “It was intentional, it was obvious, and anybody watching this knows that.” (USA Today / New York Times)
4/ A group of at least 11 Republican senators and senators-elect plan to challenge Biden’s Electoral College win on Jan. 6, calling for an “emergency 10-day audit” to investigate Trump’s numerous unfounded election fraud claims. The senators – led by Ted Cruz – provided no evidence, but cited unsubstantiated allegations of fraud and said they intend “to reject the electors from disputed states as not ‘regularly given’ and ‘lawfully certified.’” The same claims have been repeatedly rejected by courts. The new Congress will meet Wednesday to formally count the Electoral College votes. Pence, as the president of the senate, will preside over the joint session and signaled support for the effort to vote against certification. (NBC News / Politico / Washington Post / New York Times / CNBC / Bloomberg / Wall Street Journal / CNN / Axios)
A federal judge threw out a lawsuit from Rep. Louie Gohmert and several Arizona Republicans seeking to force Pence to decide the outcome of the 2020 election. (CNN / Politico)
Instead of threatening to gavel these objections into irrelevance, as Biden did four years ago, Vice President Mike Pence “welcomes” these challenges. Pence’s career is finished, but he could have stood for the Constitution he claims to love and which he swore to defend. However, cowardice is contagious, and no mask was thick enough to protect Pence from the pathogen of fear.
ReplyDeletePerhaps the sedition caucus didn’t mean to go this far. Its members began by arguing that we all just needed to humor President Trump, to give him time to process the loss, and to treat the president of the United States as a toddler who was going home empty-handed. He wouldn’t be a dead-ender, they assured us, because that would be too humiliating. The Republican Party would never immolate itself for a proven loser.
But for Trump, there is no such thing as too much humiliation. The only shame in Trump world lies in admitting defeat. And so Trump doubled down, as anyone who had watched him for more than 10 minutes knew he would. And then he tripled, quadrupled, quintupled down. And just as they have done for the past four years, elected Republicans tried to convince themselves that if they supported this outrage, it would be the last time they would be required to surrender their dignity; that this betrayal of the Constitution would be the last treachery demanded of them. That if they complied one more time, they would be allowed to go back to their privileged lives far from the districts they claim to represent—places few of them really want to live after tasting life in the Emerald City.
It is possible that the sedition caucus knew that all these challenges would fail. It is possible that they know their last insult to American democracy, on Wednesday, will go nowhere, as well. This is irrelevant: Engaging in sedition for insincere reasons does not make it less hideous. Arguing that you betrayed the Constitution only as theater is no defense.
Indeed, shredding the Constitution purely for personal gain is perhaps the worst of the sins of the sedition caucus. It would almost be a relief to know that these Republicans really believe what they’re trying to sell, that they are genuine fanatics and ideologues who have at least paid us the respect of pitting their sincere beliefs against our own.
So importamt not to answer trolls. Be better. Your weaknes is on display!
ReplyDeleteRight. Just dump nasty shit and personal stuff dug of from stalking
ReplyDeleteSUCH GOOD FOLKS:
Judicial Watch's Tom Fitton urges state legislators to appoint new electors and overturn election results
Sean Hannity is impressed by his producer's attempt to overturn Georgia's presidential election results
Fox host dismisses Trump’s attempt to change Georgia election results as “the latest media hoax”
Sean Hannity on Trump’s Georgia phone call: “The idea that he was pressuring the secretary of state was baloney”
Ben Shapiro says that Trump's actions on the call did not amount to a threat to the Georgia secretary of state
In July Mr Esper provoked the president further. First, he approved a promotion for Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Vindman, who as director for European affairs on the National Security Council had been a key witness during Mr Trump’s impeachment hearing in November 2019 (Colonel Vindman chose to retire). Then he issued an order that in effect banned the Confederate flag, a symbol of the pro-slavery South in America’s civil war, from military facilities. Days later, Mr Trump insisted that “when people proudly have their Confederate flags, they’re not talking about racism…It represents the South.”
ReplyDeleteThat largely settled Mr Esper’s fate. In August the president publicly belittled his defence secretary, calling him “Mark Yesper” (having earlier dubbed him “Mark Esperanto”). In an interview with the Military Times conducted on November 4th and published after his firing, Mr Esper took pride in his record of standing up to the president, asking: “Who’s pushed back more than anybody? Name another Cabinet secretary that’s pushed back.” He went on: “I could have a fight over anything, and I could make it a big fight, and I could live with that—why? Who’s going to come in behind me? It’s going to be a real ‘yes man’. And then God help us.”
Mr Esper’s fears are not unfounded. Like Mr Tata, many of the Pentagon’s new leaders are better known as partisan ideologues than serious policy wonks. Kash Patel, the new chief-of-staff, worked for Devin Nunes, a fervently pro-Trump congressman. In 2018 Mr Patel sought to discredit the FBI investigation into Mr Trump’s ties to Russia. Ezra Cohen-Watnick, the new intelligence chief, worked for Michael Flynn, Mr Trump’s first national security adviser, who later pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI.
Still a liar
DeleteFred or a Fred troll pasting at will?
ReplyDeleteEither way real person or fake persona, very little brains are used.
LBH, the copy and paste poster would never make it onto a debate team.
Do you think posting childish name-calling is debating? You merely post a middle school so-called insult and think that is both clever and smart. It is not. It is plain fucking stupid. Grow the fuck up.
ReplyDeleteLITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Sunday weighed in on a longshot effort by a group of Republicans to overturn the presidential election in President Donald Trump's favor.
"It's a process that they have the right to initiate ... I think certainly it will fail," Hutchinson said during an appearance on CBS' "Face the Nation."
Hutchinson continued: "Joe Biden is our president-elect and he will be confirmed in that capacity."
The Electoral College will convene Wednesday to confirm Biden's 306-232 win. A group of a dozen Republican senators, led by Texas' Ted Cruz and Missouri's Josh Hawley, plans to object to the electoral vote on unproven claims of widespread voter fraud.
Hutchinson, a Republican, noted Sunday that challenges to the election results have already been heard. State officials have insisted the elections ran smoothly and there was no evidence of fraud or other problems that would change the outcome. The states have certified their results as fair and valid. Of the more than 50 lawsuits the president and his allies have filed challenging election results, nearly all have been dismissed or dropped. He’s also lost twice at the U.S. Supreme Court.
"Let's all recognize that while the system is not perfect, it worked, state by state, and we should accept those results," Hutchinson said.
U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas announced Sunday that he would not object to the electoral votes. He said Congress trying to overturn election results would exceed its power and establish "unwise precedents."
Forgot about the last 4 yrs didn't you liar.
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