The next thing the leftist news media will tell us is that we are required to get behind China Joe’s policies, otherwise we Hate Democracy
Republicans Are Going Down a Dangerous Road
Even with the Supreme Court still deciding whether to consider a last-ditch legal effort to invalidate the results from the key swing states, there appears little chance that Trump will succeed in subverting Joe Biden’s victory. But Trump’s failure on that front has obscured his success at enlisting a growing swath of his party to join his cause—a dynamic that is already prompting new Republican efforts to make it more difficult to vote and raising concerns about the party’s commitment to the basic tenets of Western democratic rules and conventions, including the peaceful transfer of power.
“Where their hearts are is hard to know, but their behavior is not small-d democratic,†Susan Stokes, a political-science professor and the director of the Chicago Center on Democracy at the University of Chicago, told me.
Stokes, like other experts, says the Republican Party is on a continuum toward the kind of “democratic erosion†visible in other countries, including Turkey under Recep Erdoğan, Hungary under Viktor Orbán, or, in the most extreme example, Russia under Vladimir Putin. In those nations, a party that wins office through a democratic election then seeks to use state power to tilt or completely undermine future elections.
“With one of our political parties trying to overturn the results of a free and fair election, we are way farther down that road now than we were before the election, or a year ago,†she told me. Republicans “have been going down that road all through Trump’s term, but this is the parting gift, which is more extreme than what has happened before.â€
What follows is The Atlantic’s Ronald Browstein being upset that Republicans have tried to enforce the notion of one person one vote and that we should require proof that the person voting is actually that person, along with all the complaints of election fraud that have been alleged by Republicans for the 2020 election. Because trying to ensure election intergrity is just dumb, right? Because the enormous amount of election irregularities, bad software, ballots just appearing out of thin air, election watchers being kept away, counts being restarted after watchers went home, etc and so on, you know the drill, is just silly. No one should ever contest anything, right?
It’s all very interesting, because we were treated to 8 years of Democrats proclaiming that George W. Bush stole the 2000 and 2004 elections, and refereed to him as pResident and “not my president”. They then spent 4 years proclaiming that Trump was an illegitimate president because Russia stole the election for him, that he was an agent of Vladimir Putin. They wanted him impeached even before he took office. They figured out a way to get a several years long special council investigation, and still wouldn’t accept the results when it turned out their Russia Russia Russia meme was a bunch of mule fritters.
But, see, Republicans are just supposed to accept China Joe.
Read: The Atlantic: Republicans Need To Just Shut Up And Accept China Joe’s Win »
People around the world will have a chance to discuss responses to the climate crisis in a planned global citizens’ assembly to inform UN talks in Glasgow in 2021, organisers said on Thursday.
The gun debate in America will soon enter a new chapter with a Democrat in the White House after four years under President Donald Trump in which gun control advocates developed a long wish list for reform amid a spate of large-scale mass killings in places like Las Vegas, El Paso and Parkland, Florida.
The world is speeding in the wrong direction in tackling the climate emergency, Greta Thunberg has said, before a UN event at which national leaders have been asked to increase their pledges for emissions cuts. (snip)
Pennsylvania announced statewide restrictions on Thursday that ban indoor dining and close gyms, theaters and casinos for three weeks to stem a “dire†surge in coronavirus cases, and Virginians were asked to stay home from midnight to 5 a.m. until the new year.
Though Los Angeles County has ordered 
But the greatest opportunity for action against the climate crisis may be the Covid-19 pandemic. This episode in history has been a tragedy: nearly 70m people have been infected globally, and more than 1.5 million have so far lost their lives. The virus has been the cause of the gravest socio-economic crisis since the second world war, with trillions poured into economic relief. For now, providing healthcare and economic relief to those affected should be the priority.
A New York lawmaker has proposed mandating vaccination against COVID-19 if not enough residents voluntarily get the shot once it is available.
