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Notice what those cities have in common: They’re all Democrat cities. What are they saying with this boarding up and the civil unrest they’re expecting? They’re saying if you don’t choose the left’s chosen candidate, we will send the left out to attack you. That’s as close to extortion as you can get and Joe Biden has the power to say ‘Stand down’ to the mob but will he do it? This is all the proof you need that the left should not be given federal power. We deserve the great American tradition of democracy, of peaceful elections, of accepting the vote of the American people, but the boarded-up windows, the closed down stores, tell you all you need to know about the modern American left. The violence is unacceptable and they are not deserving of federal power.”

—White House Precious Secretary Kayleigh McEnany, in her successful attempt to make David Duke sound like the voice of reason and restraint. [Wasn’t it Trump himself who told the Proud Boys to :

Stand back and stand by.” [Your response Kayleigh? Kayleigh? Precious?]

I don’t think it’s fair that we have to wait for a long period of time after the election. As soon as the election is over – we’re going in with our lawyers.”

—Donald Trump, confirming that he plans to declare victory early and then prepare his legal fight. [Kayleigh? Kayleigh?

“In my opinion, these patriots did nothing wrong. Instead, the FBI & Justice should be investigating the terrorists, anarchists, and agitators of ANTIFA, who run around burning down our Democrat run cities and hurting our people!”

—Donald Trump tweet in response to incident where his supporters ran a Biden campaign buss off the road in Texas. [And therein lies the problem, folks: Trump sees everything through a lens that deflects fault from himself and onto everyone else.]

They were protecting their bus yesterday because they’re ‘nice.’”

—Trump, joking about Biden’s bus being forced off the road in Texas on Saturday. [Kayleigh, I can’t hear you.]

These Trump ‘caravans’ disrupting traffic and putting motorists at risk are pathetic, juvenile, and dangerous. This thuggish behavior is not the American way. Everybody needs to say that. I’m happy I just did.”

—Dan Rather.

The minimum number was 100,000 lives, and I think we’ll be substantially under that number.”

—Donald Trump on April 10, predicting fewer than 100,000 Americans would die of the coronavirus. [As of today, that number is more than 231,000 U.S. deaths from the virus.]

Don Jr. dismisses coronavirus deaths: ‘The number is almost nothing’ My childhood friend died from Covid so now his two teenage sons have no father but to Don Jr that’s ‘nothing.’ This is a vile family!!”

—Tweet by Dean Obeidallah in response to Junior’s minimizing 1,047 Covid deaths the previous day. [Proof once again that the nut doesn’t fall far from the tree.]

“As I look across America today, I’m concerned. The country is in a dangerous place. Our trust in each other is ebbing. Hope seems elusive. [The country] has too bright a future to leave it shipwrecked on the shoals of anger and hate and division.”

—Joe Biden, speaking (appropriately) in Gettysburg last week.

On election night, there’s a real possibility that the data will show Republicans leading early, before all the votes are counted. Then they can pretend something sinister is going on when the counts change in Democrats’ favor.”

—Former housing secretary Julian Castro, warning of the possibility that Trump may declare victory before all the votes are counted.

It wasn’t long ago that people were beaten and even killed to obtain the sacred power each of you have today, the power to vote. And right now, your vote is more critical than ever.”

—Actor Morgan Freeman.

Many courts are chipping away at votes that ought to be counted. It is a disgrace to the federal courts’ foundational role in ensuring democracy’s function, and a betrayal to the persons that wish to participate in it fully.”

—Federal Judge Karen Nelson Moore, in her dissent to a court ruling to uphold signature-match rules for mail ballots in Tennessee.

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany erroneously claimed in September that then-Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, when she had actually attended Rhodes College in Memphis, Tenn.

—Salon.com, in a story revealing that U.S. Sen. John Cornyn did not graduate from Oxford University in England as claimed. [Maybe each of them will hit the road after Tuesday.]

And now Trump is making his final campaign swing through the ‘battleground states,’ feeding the insatiable need of his base for more of himself. ‘Four more years’ has become ‘12 more years.’ Somehow Trump is owed more years of the presidency because ‘they’ took two or three years away from him during the Russia investigation, because ‘they’ spied on his 2016 campaign, because ‘they’ don’t deserve to win. The red-hat-wearing mobs of un-masked fans at his rallies want more of the America they think Trump is bringing back to them. It’s an America that is more white, has more guns, has more churches, more of ‘us,’ less of ‘them.’”

—Salon.com.

The suggestion that doctors—in the midst of a public health crisis—are overcounting COVID-19 patients or lying to line their pockets is a malicious, outrageous, and completely misguided charge.”

—AMA President Susan Bailey.

NOT A TRUMP QUOTE, but it should be (with apologies to Cavin & Hobbes):

“Why don’t I have a bunch of friends with nothing better to do but drop by and tell me how great I am? Why aren’t my conversations peppered with spontaneous witticisms? Why don’t my friends demonstrate heartfelt concern for my well-being when I have problems?”

How do you explain an incumbent candidate’s flooding someone’s email inbox with 23 messages in a single 24-hour period? Especially when that someone isn’t a supporter and is a member of the opposing political party?

It can be a measure of how poorly the campaign vets its mailing list, how disorganized the entire organization is. And that could reflect on how disorganized the incumbent’s administration really is.

It also could be a measure of just how desperate the candidate is that he would blanket a recipient with messages not only from him, but ostensibly family members and political allies.

That’s what Donald Trump has done with me over the weeks and months of this seemingly interminable campaign.

Some of the messages are downright funny, others actually pathetic.

Here’s one I received at 6:16 p.m. on Saturday:

“Tom:

“I emailed you.

“The Vice President emailed you.

“My sons, Don and Eric, both emailed you.

“Lara emailed you.

“Newt Gingrich emailed you.

“Ted Cruz emailed you.

“Sarah Huckabee Sanders emailed you.

“The Trump Finance Team emailed you.

“And now I’m emailing you. Again.”

(I’d already received 14 separate emails from all of the aforementioned by the time that one popped up in my inbox. Oh, and Lara, in case you didn’t know, is Eric’s wife.)

Trump continued in that email:

“Each day, my team has given me a list of Patriots who stepped up to help us reach our Final End-of-Month Goal, and each day I’ve noticed YOUR NAME is STILL MISSING.”

Well, yeah….

Another email features a roster that appears to scroll down a lengthy list of donors from various states, along with the amounts contributed. If you just glance at the moving scroll, it looks quite impressive.

But on closer inspection, you can see that the same names appear over and over and that there are actually only about a dozen names at best on the list. But it looks impressive.

What’s really amusing about the whole sad effort is that each email starts out with the personal salutation (in my case, “Tom”) before moving on to a pitch for money from the self-proclaimed billionaire who boasted in 2016 that he didn’t need campaign contributions, that he was going to finance his own campaign.

And now we learn that Trump has coyly constructed his campaign pledges so that donors unknowingly may be consenting to automatic bank withdrawals to the Trump campaign all the way through December to help him in his anticipated legal battle over the election outcome.

At one time, I deleted Trump’s emails as fast as I received them. But as they began increasing in frequency in the closing days of the campaign, I’ve started saving them.

In hopes I won’t get sued for copyright infringement, my inbox is now

President Trump is trailing Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in the polls because millions of Americans are tired of Trump’s lies, incompetence, ignorance and dismal record of failure upon failure — particularly regarding his response to the coronavirus pandemic. If you haven’t voted yet, I urge you to do so. Vote for Joe Biden — not because he is perfect, but because he is the most equipped to lead our nation during this turbulent time.”

—Endorsement of Fox News liberal contributor Richard Fowler. [That explosion you just heard was Trump’s Twitter feed going off on Fox for allowing him to post that.]

Fox News and the Wall Street Journal have reviewed all of the business documents that Hunter Biden’s old business partner Tony Bublinski turned over, and they did not show a role for Joe Biden in this business venture — nor did they show the former vice president had taken any money from the venture.”

—Fox News reporter Kristen Fisher, on the decision by Fox and the Wall Street Journal not to go with the contrived Hunter Biden non-story. [Well, that sure turned out to be one helluva October surprise, now didn’t it?]

A few tweets about that big, bad Hunter Biden scandal (that never was. Dare we say, “Fake News”?):

Wait, hold up – so the Hunter Biden-China fake connection was made up by a fake firm (Typhoon Investigations) led by a fake person (“Martin Aspen”) to be delivered to a fake president (Donald Trump).”

I’d like to take a moment to wish Tucker Carlson the best of luck in his quest to find his imaginary documents from a company that never existed.”

NBC Exclusive: The Hunter Biden ‘dossier’ that went viral on right-wing internet sites and was later disseminated by Trump’s close associates appears to be from a fake ‘intelligence firm’. The author of the report, ‘Martin Aspen’, does not exist.”

But, but, Rudy (hand down pants) Giuliani said the Hunter laptop was real! Well he tricked by Borat, tricked by Russian’s and now tricked by a fake security firm.”

Can he continue to make people not trust our institutions? Can he throw monkey wrenches into delicate negotiations? Absolutely. He can be a tool. He’ll be somewhere between dangerous and devastating on that extent.”

—Former Trump administration official, speculating on life after the presidency if Trump loses on Tuesday.

Brothers, a friendly reminder for elections: make sure your wife votes exactly as you do.”

—Tweet by some clown named Jesse Sumpter.

Sisters, a friendly reminder for elections (which have secret ballots and which we’ve only been able to participate in since 1920): make sure you vote exactly as your conscience tells you.”

—Tweet in response to idiot Sumpter by Sarah McCammon.

Trump will win 48 states.”

—Comment some time back on LouisianaVoice by a Trump supporter who has been extremely quiet of late.

NOT A TRUMP QUOTE, but it should be (with apologies to Cavin & Hobbes):

“Lindsey Graham: ‘Do you think there’s a God?
Trump: ‘Well somebody’s out to get me!’”

Mr. Trump’s lawless, amoral and dishonorable ethos makes a mockery of the democratic accountability that is fostered through respect for law and our constitutional principles. He has overtly refused to honor the independence of the judiciary, failed to acknowledge the authority of Congress and the corresponding constraints imposed on a president by the separation of powers, demonized the free press that speaks truth to power, and undermined due process and the fair administration of justice by relentlessly politicizing the investigation and enforcement of the criminal law. Chanting ‘lock him (or her) up’ or ‘enemy of the people’ are statements we could not have imagined Presidents Reagan, George H.W. Bush or George W. Bush – or any president before this one – uttering about a political opponent or about some of our leading news organizations,” they write. “Those ugly sentiments are the very antithesis of American ideals and echo the authoritarian tyrants that every previous president would have challenged.”

—Open letter by five lawyers who worked in the Ronald Reagan administration, explaining why they are endorsing Joe Biden for president.

The Trump administration’s efforts to suppress votes amid a global pandemic fueled by their disregard for human life will not be tolerated in the birthplace of American democracy,” Krasner said. “Philadelphians from a diversity of political opinions believe strongly in the rule of law, in fair and free elections, and in a democratic system of government. We will not be cowed or ruled by a lawless, power-hungry despot. Some folks learned that the hard way in the 1700s.”

—Philadelphia District Attorney Lawrence Krasner, on Donald Trump’s efforts to intimidate voters in that city.

If Sleepy Joe Biden is actually elected President, the 4 Justices (plus1) that helped make such a ridiculous win possible would be relegated to sitting on not only a heavily PACKED COURT, but probably a REVOLVING COURT as well.”

—Donald Trump tweet after U.S. Supreme Court handed him a defeat with its decision to allow late counting of ballots in Pennsylvania and North Carolina. [Meanwhile, Trump has cancelled plans for an election night party at Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. Sounds like someone is resigned to losing the election.]

November 3rd will go down in history as the night we won FOUR MORE YEARS. It will be absolutely EPIC, and the only thing that could make it better is having YOU there.”

—Trump email to supports just this week (even I got one) announcing a drawing to give one winner and a guest the chance to be flown to Washington to stay for free and attend that now-cancelled victory party at Trump International. [Oops.]

In a time when hate, negativity and fear are the messages the media streams into our homes and the large tech companies are protecting political censorship, we need to remember what is really important. My husband’s administration is focused on the future, the health and safety of the American people, the education and wellbeing of our children.”

—Melania Trump, trying out her new stand-up comedy routine in Tampa on Thursday.

Donald Trump has an atrocious history here in Atlantic City. His properties started out as gems, and he let them fall into disrepair for the sake of making a dollar. He hurt so many little mom-and-pop shops and small businesses.”

—Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small.

I wasn’t coming to Erie. I have to be honest. There’s no way I was coming. I didn’t have to. And then we got hit with the plague, and I had to go back to work.”

—Trump, to supporters in Erie, Pennsylvania. [That’s right, Trump, insult your supporters to their faces – and they love it. Says something about you and them.]

NOT A TRUMP QUOTE, but it should be (with apologies to Cavin & Hobbes):

“As a fact atheist, I should be excused.”