Trump Is Treating Michigan the Way He Treated Ukraine. Well Done, Senate Republicans

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A few weeks before President Trump was impeached last December for attempting to blackmail Ukraine into investigating Joe Biden, Stanford law professor Pamela Karlan warned the House Judiciary Committee of a future in which the president used similar tactics on his own country:

“Imagine living in a part of Louisiana or Texas that’s prone to devastating hurricanes and flooding. What would you think if you lived there and your governor asked for a meeting with the president to discuss getting disaster aid that Congress has provided for? What would you think if that president said, ‘I would like you to do us a favor? I’ll meet with you, and send the disaster relief, once you brand my opponent a criminal.’

Wouldn’t you know in your gut that such a president has abused his office? That he’d betrayed the national interest, and that he was trying to corrupt the electoral process? I believe the evidentiary record shows wrongful acts on those scale here.”

It didn’t take long for Karlan’s hypothetical to sidle up next to reality. Trump has repeatedly criticized Democratic governors throughout the coronavirus crisis, the implication being that there could be repercussions if they fail to cooperate with the administration or show their gratitude to the president. In late March, Trump came pretty close to laying out a quid pro quo during an interview with Fox News. “It’s a two-way street,” the president said while discussing states in need of federal assistance. “They have to treat us well, also.”

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https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-threatens-michigan-nevada-vote-by-mail-impeachment-1003163/

[maxrandb]

1. I can't wait to kick the shit out of the Confederacy again

Bring it on you fucking Retrumplican morons.

Let's stop nibbling around the edges. They have wanted a redo of Sherman's March since the day Lee waved the white flag.

[localroger]

2. Can we stop with this Confederacy shit?

This has nothing to do with the Civil War. This is a New York based slumlord mob boss blackmailing states in the northeast and the west to do his bidding if they want disaster relief. Where the fuck is the south?

Yeah, we get it, Civil War bad yadda yadda yadda. And there are ignorant fucks running around who want to pretend it went the other way. But this has nothing to do with them or that, so the ignorant fuck here is the person who brought that up in the context of something that has nothing at all to do with it.

[roamer65]

3. If Dump steals the election again, I am all in for Michigan secession.

We can start talks with Ottawa for admission into the Canadian confederation.

I think NY and New England will be onboard for it as well.

[Volaris]

4. Perfect. Now hes got his excuse to claim the election was rigged, and he shouldnt honor the result.

I'm not saying we should stop doing mail in ballots, quite the opposite. But we had better be prepared for him to scream to high heaven how he was cheated, and we had better have an counter to that narrative that will hold through the electoral college certifying his loss.