#kamala — Public Fediverse posts

Since the #election, we heard from a friend in #UK. She sent an excellent recommendation:

"I thought you'd be interested in the story of the founding father of one of our great British institutions (aside from the BBC) -

The National Theatre is showing this whole award-winning play for free. Last day to view is Monday, Nov. 11. Please watch. Its both entertaining and encouraging, and so much more than you might expect. Give it a chance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpN--d5bXSY

#kamala #nhs #democrats #harriswalz #heathcare #Ntah #theater #play

Margaret Atwood: “Mucha gente tenía miedo de perder estatus con una presidencia de Kamala Harris”
https://www.eldiario.es/cultura/libros/margaret-atwood-gente-tenia-miedo-perder-estatus-presidencia-kamala-harris_1_11801679.html

#margaret #atwood #gente #tenia #miedo #perder #estatus #presidencia #kamala #harris

#DieZeit:
#Georgia #BradRaffensperger, oberster Beamter des Bundesstaates: "Russland hat sich das falsche Georgia ausgesucht. Sollen sie doch das Georgien am Schwarzen Meer belästigen. Wir lassen uns nicht unterkriegen.“
Foto: N. Frandino/Reuters
#USA #USPolitics #Election2024 #ElectionDay #ElectionDay2024 #ElectionResults #ElectionResults2024 #Kamala #KamalaHarris #KamalaHarris2024 #Kamala4President #HarrisWalz #HarrisWalz2024InALandslide #HarrisWalz2024 #Raffensperger
@SteveThompson

#kamala #kamalaharris #MadamPresident

In Texas and across the country,
far-right candidates have won control of school boards,
swiftly banning books, halting diversity efforts and altering curricula that do not align with their beliefs.

O’Hare’s election in Tarrant County, however, takes the battle from the schoolhouse to county government,
offering a rare look at what happens when hard-liners win the majority and exert their influence over municipal affairs in a closely divided county.

Since he was elected county judge
— a position similar to that of mayor in a city
— O’Hare has pushed his agenda with an uncompromising approach.
He has led efforts to cut funding to nonprofits that work with at-risk children, citing their views on racial inequality and LGBTQ+ rights.
And he has pushed election law changes that local Republican leaders said would favor them.

O’Hare’s rise in Tarrant County has come as he and his allies continue to align with once-fringe figures while targeting private citizens with whom they disagree politically.
In July, O’Hare had a local pastor removed from a public meeting for speaking eight seconds over his allotted time.
Days later, O’Hare appeared onstage at a conference that urged attendees to resist a Democratic campaign to “rid the earth of the white race” and embrace #Christian #nationalism.
The agenda prompted some right-wing Republicans to condemn or pull out of the event.

“We’re seeing a shift of what conservatism looks like,
and at the lower levels, they’re testing how extreme it can get,”
said Robert Futrell, a sociologist at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas who studies political extremism.
“The goal is to capture local Republican Party infrastructure and positions and own the party, turning it to more extremist goals.”

Frequently, those aims include pushing back against broader LGBTQ+ acceptance, downplaying the nation’s history of racism and the lingering disparities caused by it, stemming immigration, and falsely claiming that America was founded as a Christian nation and that its laws and institutions should thus reflect conservative evangelical beliefs.

With 2.2 million people, Tarrant County is Texas’ most significant remaining battleground for Democrats and Republicans.
When the county voted for Beto O’Rourke for U.S. Senate in 2018 and Joe Biden for president in 2020,
many political observers suspected the end was nigh for the era of Republican dominance in the purple county.

Two years later, voters elected the most hard-line Tarrant County leader in decades.
After two years under O’Hare’s leadership, voters in November will decide two races between Republican allies of O’Hare and their Democratic opponents.
The election of both Democrats would put O’Hare into the minority.

The changes in county leadership have been dramatic, said O’Hare’s Republican predecessor, #Glen #Whitley, who served as Tarrant County judge from 2007 until retiring in 2022.
Whitley said O’Hare has implanted an “us vs. them” ideology that has increasingly been mainstreamed on the right.
“They no longer feel like they have to compromise,” said Whitley, who recently endorsed Democratic Vice President #Kamala Harris for president and U.S. Rep. Colin #Allred of Texas in the U.S. Senate race.
“You either vote with these people 100% of the time, or you’re their enemy.”

https://www.propublica.org/article/tarrant-county-judge-tim-ohare-far-right

@petergleick

Whale-head Dead-bear calls up #Kamala and says, "Gimme a job, or I'll kill your dog."

#MadamPresident tells him to fuck himself with a Calabrese, so he calls up Trump and says, "Mean ol' Kamala won't give him a <i>Black Job</i>."

(If the HTML tags don't work, everybody on Masto knows what they mean anyway.)

US citizens and concerned others should pay attention to this segment from the Rachel Maddow show on MSNBC:

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-points-out-frightening-truth-about-trump-s-lack-of-concern-about-votes-215958085917

The story tries to make sense of the fact that Trump has repeatedly remarked in an ominous way that he's not too concerned about whether people vote, as if the plan is to win the election not on votes but court challenges.

She's drawing on this excellent reporting from Rolling Stone:

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-swing-state-officials-election-deniers-1235069692/

From that article:

«“I think we are going to see mass refusals to certify the election” in November, says Democratic election lawyer Marc Elias. “Everything we are seeing about this election is that the other side is more organized, more ruthless, and more prepared.”»

I don't even know why anyone at MSNBC is surprised. I've been worried for now a couple of years that this was going to happen and it was because of reporting MSNBC and others did even back then, saying that the groundwork for this was being laid. That we have taken this long to recognize the threat is distressing.

If Biden does not have a task force in place to counter this threat, he needs to make one.

As I noted in my July 5 blog post Supreme Challenge (https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2024/07/supreme-challenge.html), before Biden passed the baton to Harris, Biden now has considerable power he's opting not to use but must reconsider using to assure fair elections.

He could, for example, order DOJ to charge every one of these people who are conspiring in advance and without foundation to challenge an election with seditious conspiracy. Such powers, SCOTUS tells us, are absolute and not subject to legal review. Probably there are other actions he could take, too.

My more general point is that we don't have to sit idle and watch misdeeds play out as if there is nothing to be done. Certainly if Trump is elected, HE will use those same powers in exactly the same way but without foundation, hesitation, or remorse, and without the health of our democracy as his goal.

As noted by Marc Elias in the quote above, these guys are not kidding around, they are playing for keeps. The Dems better treat this as the serious threat it is. I'd say the GOP should likewise care, but they're in a hypnotic trance, operating in mindless lockstep, so it's up to those not under the spell to act.

Maybe, too, Kamala can see what Joe might not and use her newfound clout to get him to take the gloves off.

#politics #USPolitics #democracy #Election2024 #kamala #KamalaHarris #biden #ElectionInterference #ElectionDeniers #ElectionMeddling #ElectionChallenges #SeditiousConspiracy

EDIT: I mirrored this essay on my blog at Blogspot in slightly prettier form for those who might want a better external reference:

https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2024/07/conspiring-to-contest-elections.html