I am so sick and tired of the chaos in this post-election period. I am sick and tired of being shown that we the voters are naught but pawns in a large game of corporate greed, and that our voices matter only so long as we agree with the corporate giants whose net worth is thousands of times higher than our own. I’m tired of feeling my heart rate shoot through the roof because of my extreme fury with those who identify as republicans, when all they are is greedy monsters. The latest that has raised my hackles …
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is a grade-A bastard. On behalf of the State of Texas, he has filed a lawsuit against four other states: Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Apparently, I was right the other day when I said this is no longer the “United” States, for within a nation, states do not sue other states, especially for that which does not concern them! It would be like me suing my daughter for wearing red shoes!
The lawsuit, filed directly with the U.S. Supreme Court, asks that the voting results in those states be thrown out because of their changes in voting procedures that allowed expanded mail-in voting during the coronavirus pandemic. No allegations of widespread fraud or irregularities, simply because Paxton and Texas don’t like that these states allowed more people to vote by mail rather than standing in line being contaminated by a deadly virus! And what the hell business is it of Texas what Michigan does??? NONE!
Note that these four were considered ‘battleground’ states, ones that might have gone either way. Note also that Paxton didn’t file the suit against California, or New York, states that also allowed additional mail-in voting due to the pandemic, but which are traditionally democratic strongholds.
But wait … it gets even worse. Yesterday, 106 republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives signed an amicus brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the Texas case against the four other states. In other words, 106 of the men and women in Congress who we elected to serve our best interests and whose salary we pay with our hard-earned tax dollars, want the Court to take away our voices, to negate our votes, simply because we mailed them instead of standing in line for hours and dying two weeks later! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Now, I don’t think it at all likely that the Court is going to accede to their wishes at this juncture – it would be a fool’s errand and would likely lead to an uprising the likes of which this nation has not seen in more than two centuries. It would be unconstitutional, to put it quite simply. But I am incensed that these assholes in Congress who are by law OUR EMPLOYEES, are seeking to cause us grievous harm.
Adding insult to injury, Donald Trump filed a motion with the court on Wednesday asking the justices to let him intervene and become a plaintiff in the suit! This is all unprecedented, and in my book is treason against the people of the United States. If my voice were strong enough, if my blog reached enough people, I would try my best to start a tax rebellion right now, urging people to continue paying their state and local income taxes, but not their federal. These jerks, and I do include Donald Trump in that, do not deserve to get one more thin dime from We the Taxpayers! Remember … well, we weren’t alive then, but we know the history … in 1776 when colonists rebelled against ‘taxation without representation’? That, my friends, is precisely what Trump and the republicans are trying to do to us … keep taking our tax money, and stifle our voices, take away our constitutional rights to participate in free and fair elections.
Below is a table I put together, sorted by state to hopefully make it easier to check and see if your representative is among the reprehensible autocrats who support this vile movement. If so, please take a minute to email or call them and tell them just what you think of their nefarious activities!
| Rep. Bradley Byrne | Alabama’s 1st Congressional District |
| Rep. Mo Brooks | Alabama’s 5th Congressional District |
| Rep. Gary Palmer | Alabama’s 6th Congressional District |
| Rep. Andy Biggs | Arizona’s 5th Congressional District |
| Rep. Debbie Lesko | Arizona’s 8th Congressional District |
| Rep. Rick Crawford | Arkansas’s 1st Congressional District |
| Rep. Bruce Westerman | Arkansas’s 4th Congressional District |
| Rep. Doug LaMalfa | California’s 1st Congressional District |
| Rep. Ken Calvert | California’s 42nd Congressional District |
| Rep. Tom McClintock | California’s 4th Congressional District |
| Rep. Ken Buck | Colorado’s 4th Congressional District |
| Rep. Doug Lamborn | Colorado’s 5th Congressional District |
| Rep. Daniel Webster | Florida’s 11th Congressional District |
| Rep. Gus Bilirakis | Florida’s 12th Congressional District |
| Rep. Ross Spano | Florida’s 15th Congressional District |
| Rep. Matt Gaetz | Florida’s 1st Congressional District |
| Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart | Florida’s 25th Congressional District |
| Rep. Neal P. Dunn | Florida’s 2nd Congressional District |
| Rep. Ted S. Yoho | Florida’s 3rd Congressional District |
| Rep. John Rutherford | Florida’s 4th Congressional District |
| Rep. Michael Waltz | Florida’s 6th Congressional District |
| Rep. Rick W. Allen | Georgia’s 12th Congressional District |
| Rep. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter | Georgia’s 1st Congressional District |
| Rep. Drew Ferguson | Georgia’s 3rd Congressional District |
| Rep. Austin Scott | Georgia’s 8th Congressional District |
| Rep. Russ Fulcher | Idaho’s 1st Congressional District |
| Rep. Mike Simpson | Idaho’s 2nd Congressional District |
| Rep. Mike Bost | Illinois’s 12th Congressional District |
| Rep. Darin LaHood | Illinois’s 18th Congressional District |
| Rep. Jim Banks | Indiana’s 3rd Congressional District |
| Rep. James R. Baird | Indiana’s 4th Congressional District |
| Rep. Trey Hollingsworth | Indiana’s 9th Congressional District |
| Rep. Steve King | Iowa’s 4th Congressional District |
| Rep. Roger Marshall | Kansas’s 1st Congressional District |
| Rep. Ron Estes | Kansas’s 4th Congressional District |
| Rep. Steve Scalise | Louisiana’s 1st Congressional District |
| Rep. Clay Higgins | Louisiana’s 3rd Congressional District |
| Rep. Mike Johnson | Louisiana’s 4th Congressional District |
| Rep. Ralph Abraham | Louisiana’s 5th Congressional District |
| Rep. Andy Harris | Maryland’s 1st Congressional District |
| Rep. Jack Bergman | Michigan’s 1st Congressional District |
| Rep. Bill Huizenga | Michigan’s 2nd Congressional District |
| Rep. John Moolenaar | Michigan’s 4th Congressional District |
| Rep. Tim Walberg | Michigan’s 7th Congressional District |
| Rep. Tom Emmer | Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District |
| Rep. Trent Kelly | Mississippi’s 1st Congressional District |
| Rep. Michael Guest | Mississippi’s 3rd Congressional District |
| Rep. Ann Wagner | Missouri’s 2nd Congressional District |
| Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer | Missouri’s 3rd Congressional District |
| Rep. Vicky Hartzler | Missouri’s 4th Congressional District |
| Rep. Sam Graves | Missouri’s 6th Congressional District |
| Rep. Jason Smith | Missouri’s 8th Congressional District |
| Rep. Greg Gianforte | Montana’s at-large congressional district |
| Rep. Jeff Fortenberry | Nebraska’s 1st Congressional District |
| Rep. Adrian Smith | Nebraska’s 3rd Congressional District |
| Rep. Lee Zeldin | New York’s 1st Congressional District |
| Rep. Elise Stefanik | New York’s 21st Congressional District |
| Rep. Ted Budd | North Carolina’s 13th Congressional District |
| Rep. Gregory Murphy | North Carolina’s 3rd Congressional District |
| Rep. Virginia Foxx | North Carolina’s 5th Congressional District |
| Rep. David Rouzer | North Carolina’s 7th Congressional District |
| Rep. Richard Hudson | North Carolina’s 8th Congressional District |
| Rep. Dan Bishop | North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District |
| Rep. Brad Wenstrup | Ohio’s 2nd Congressional District |
| Rep. Jim Jordan | Ohio’s 4th Congressional District |
| Rep. Robert E. Latta | Ohio’s 5th Congressional District |
| Rep. Bill Johnson | Ohio’s 6th Congressional District |
| Rep. Bob Gibbs | Ohio’s 7th Congressional District |
| Rep. Kevin Hern | Oklahoma’s 1st Congressional District |
| Rep. Markwayne Mullin | Oklahoma’s 2nd Congressional District |
| Rep. Scott Perry | Pennsylvania’s 10th Congressional District |
| Rep. Fred Keller | Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional District |
| Rep. John Joyce | Pennsylvania’s 13th Congressional District |
| Rep. Guy Reschenthaler | Pennsylvania’s 14th Congressional District |
| Rep. Glenn Thompson | Pennsylvania’s 15th Congressional District |
| Rep. Mike Kelly | Pennsylvania’s 16th Congressional District |
| Rep. Dan Meuser | Pennsylvania’s 9th Congressional District |
| Rep. Joe Wilson | South Carolina’s 2nd Congressional District |
| Rep. Jeff Duncan | South Carolina’s 3rd Congressional District |
| Rep. William Timmons | South Carolina’s 4th Congressional District |
| Rep. Ralph Norman | South Carolina’s 5th Congressional District |
| Rep. Tom Rice | South Carolina’s 7th Congressional District |
| Rep. Tim Burchett | Tennessee’s 2nd Congressional District |
| Rep. John Rose | Tennessee’s 6th Congressional District |
| Rep. Mark Green | Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District |
| Rep. David Kustoff | Tennessee’s 8th Congressional District |
| Rep. Chuck Fleischmann | Tennessee’s 3rd Congressional District |
| Rep. Mike Conaway | Texas’s 11th Congressional District |
| Rep. Randy Weber | Texas’s 14th Congressional District |
| Rep. Bill Flores | Texas’s 17th Congressional District |
| Rep. Louie Gohmert | Texas’s 1st Congressional District |
| Rep. Kenny Marchant | Texas’s 24th Congressional District |
| Rep. Roger Williams | Texas’s 25th Congressional District |
| Rep. Michael C. Burgess | Texas’s 26th Congressional District |
| Rep. Michael Cloud | Texas’s 27th Congressional District |
| Rep. Dan Crenshaw | Texas’s 2nd Congressional District |
| Rep. Lance Gooden | Texas’s 5th Congressional District |
| Rep. Ron Wright | Texas’s 6th Congressional District |
| Rep. Kevin Brady | Texas’s 8th Congressional District |
| Rep. Rob Wittman | Virginia’s 1st Congressional District |
| Rep. Ben Cline | Virginia’s 6th Congressional District |
| Rep. Dan Newhouse | Washington’s 4th Congressional District |
| Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers | Washington’s 5th Congressional District |
| Rep. Alex X. Mooney | West Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District |
|
Rep. Carol D. Miller |
West Virginia’s 3rd Congressional District |
| Rep. Tom Tiffany | Wisconsin’s 7th Congressional District |
I live within the district of one of those Republicans you mentioned above–Doug Lamborn. He does nothing more than kiss Trump’s arse and collect his paycheck and gratuities. But this district is so solidly Republican he could be caught eating babies and still be re-elected.
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Funny, isn’t it, how these guys can operate in complete disregard of their Oaths of Office, can pass laws that hurt the average citizen, and yet … they keep getting re-elected time and time again. Brainwashing? Sigh.
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Our Wyoming governor just announced he’s joining the lawsuit. I am not surprised as we are a bright red state, but so disappointed in the news about Trump. When is his reign going to end? When is he going to be put in jail for using his presidency this way? As tax payers, we should all be disgusted.
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I heard about that … so many governors and attorneys general have signed on to the Trumptanic wagon that I am … my jaw keeps dropping … I am astounded. Stunned. He should be charged with sedition and other high crimes, but likely won’t be. Why? I don’t quite know … he seems to have hypnotized fully half of the people in this nation. We will have to settle for being rid of him in 39 days … counting down with bated breath!
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POST ELECTION PERIOD … I’m so done!! Right with you!! … ” I am sick and tired of being shown that we the voters are naught but pawns in a large game of corporate greed, and that our voices matter only so long as we agree with the corporate giants whose net worth is thousands of times higher than our own. I’m tired of feeling my heart rate shoot through the roof because of my extreme fury with those who identify as republicans, when all they are is greedy monsters. The latest that has raised my hackles …”
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Many thanks, dear friend! I keep going around saying “Beam me up, Scottie”, but every morning I wake and find that I’m still here, Trump still exists, and the chaos resumes. Sigh.
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Good day, sweet one!! You are most welcome!! Thanks for that reminder … I wasn’t breathing well until the SCOTUS decision!! And still, yes, he’s here. He won’t go away!! Sometimes I don’t will him well … sorry to say but I just can’t. And McConnell too. And now 126 House reps!! It won’t go away after 1/20/21!! Tight hug … I think I’ll also use “Beam me up’!! … and take me to PR!! ❤ ❤ …
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I’ve stopped being polite about it (though I’m careful not to draw the attention of the men in dark glasses 😉 ) and have point-blank said that the simplest solution to this whole mess would be his death. Why couldn’t the coronavirus have finished the job? Sigh. Tight hug received and appreciated! If you get beamed up and taken to PR, stop by and pick me up too! Hugs back, dear one! 🤗
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Will do, dear friend!! 🤗💞🤗
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Thats politics, and seems always to be a “game of its own”.;-( Michael
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Sadly true. Sigh.
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What I want to know is how many of these anti-democracy supporters were elected in this election and will also have THEIR seats thrown out with the ballots? It’s not just the president on those there American style ballots – so EVERY one of them loses their seats too, right? The fraud would NOT just exist for the first thing on those stupid ballots…fraud means the whole kit and kaboodle, you jerks.
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A good point!
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You make an EXCELLENT point, and one I hadn’t given any thought to. It’s a moot point now that the Court dismissed the case, but you’re right … what chaos if every ballot that voted for Biden was thrown out … representatives, senators, state and local officials … mass chaos!
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Hi Jill, the argument for the Texas lawsuit against the 4 other states, ballots after election day are invalid according to the Constitution. Reasonably due to the pandemic, this rule should bend to the spirit of the law, how else would ppl vote? However, there were no formal provision or amendment to the Constitution regarding this issue. Trump is using this as a pretext to throw out all the “late” votes. Washington Post wrote an extensive article on this topic:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/10/26/constitution-suffrage-vote-states/
I’m still not clear if this is a state issue or federal, as elections are taking place for both. I’ve read there’s a precedent somewhere, and Trump is citing that as a reason to invalidate all votes, mail-in or otherwise. It will be interesting to see how the Supreme Court rules on this controversial issue.
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Jill, it is “maddening” using Senator Mitt Romney’s word for his fellow Republicans. Two comments. First, the battleground states have responded with a detailed rebuttal defining the Texas effort as “seditious.” Second, Texas has “no standing” or facts on this issue, so experts are saying it will be dismissed. But, of course, nothing is normal with this corrupt and deceitful acting outgoing president. Seditious could be added to his list of actions as well. Keith
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PS – This is from an article this morning:
“Texas’s own senior GOP senator, John Cornyn, said, ‘I frankly struggle to understand the legal theory’ behind it. Jeb Bush responded by saying there was no theory and predicted that the court would reject it out of hand. Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) even went so far Thursday as to suggest it was a ‘PR stunt rather than a lawsuit” and that Paxton (R) might be merely seeking a Trump pardon for his personal legal problems.'”
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I’ve long thought Cornyn was an okay guy … I recall that he and McCain were friends. I really like Sasse’s take on it … a PR stunt … exactly! Trupm is the showman, the circus ringleader, needs attention and publicity.
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I was pleased to see the Court’s ruling today, their dismissal of this and any other pending complaints. It especially pleased me that the only dissents were from Alito and Thomas, and even they said they would not have agreed to overturn the voice of the people. Not one of the three Trump nominated dissented. I feared it would go badly, but was quite pleased with the results. Two more hurdles … fingers crossed. And yes, sedition is definitely to be added to his list of crimes. I would go with treason, even, but I know that’s probably a stretch.
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Trump has succeeded in murdering the last vestiges of faith in democracy for the trusting and honest people, young and old, in the US. Young people who yet had no idea what true politics is all about will be scarred to the point of rage and apathy. Old people will give up out of fear and exhaustion. Or there will be the war he has tried so hard to start and his followers will get in line with submachine guns blazing, all not for a real cause, but because they want to kill something and he is the antichrist crazy maker just for the sake of creating chaos.
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If the Supreme Court had pandered to his wishes, if they had allowed the voices of 10 million voters to be stifled, I believe there would have been blood shed in the streets, at the very least. The fact that the Court basically rolled its eyes and said, “Sit down and shut up”, will have helped. But still … a precedent has been set and it will have long-lasting ramifications. Sigh.
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I agree with everything you say Jill, this is a last-ditch pernicious effort to please Trump though of course they’ll be delighted if it works and lots of votes are disallowed thus disenfranchising another group of voters. I was surprised not to see any senators on your list. Once this is thrown out of court……….and it better had be, I think each state where there has been a representative agreeing with this action should call for special elections to oust these people who want to subvert the Constitution.
Cwtch
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A good idea but I have no faith it will happen. The Supreme Court is a joke now, not what it was j tended to be before Trump I intervened with power he doesn’t have.
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I agree that it is an excellent idea, but no, it won’t happen. In fact, more than half of these unconscionable assholes will likely be re-elected in 2022! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
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I am amazed … not in any good way … by the number of republicans at both the state and federal level that are jumping on this Trumptanic Train! Where the Sam Hell are people’s brains??? I don’t think the Court will give Team Trump a win on this one …. BUT … the support at the congressional level makes me fearful what will happen when the Electoral College has voted and Congress has to certify the electoral votes. Will they stomp on We the People like ants and raise their ‘hero’ to the status of king? Sigh. If they do, there WILL be war in this country. 😥
Cwtch
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