With yesterday's vote in the Senate please remember that Russia/Republican election rigging ...

[Botany]

.... also effected senate races too. Russ Feingold had a 90% + chance of winning his
race and election models had the Democrats taking control of the senate.

It was a coup and we had treason.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029914612

66 programs that will be cut as a result of Trump's budget .

[onecaliberal]

1. Republicans are coming for your social security next

[a kennedy]

5. Do you think the assholes that voted for tRump know this?? Do they really understand what just

happened to their taxes, deductions and the possibility of losing their SS and Medicare???? Do they have any understanding of the ramifications of the Senate's actions??? I bet not.

[RhodeIslandOne]

10. They think only minorities will lose their....

.....”entitlements”

[hedda_foil]

24. Right. They want the gubmint to keep its dirty hands off their social security and Medicare.

[onecaliberal]

12. Maybe not right now. They DO know republicans control the entire government. Dump is touting

How great these tax cuts are. Pox snooze will be setting themselves with lies. So yeah I️ think they will know.

[pangaia]

17. They will be lied to and believe it. No. The will know know what happened.

[MFM008]

2. Yup

Everything.......

[kydo]

3. That's what I keep saying

Most rethugs took part in the rigging and working with russia to win their election. Mother Fuckers!

That's why none of them are calling for the traitor to be removed. Most of them are involved.

This is not going to end well.

[Botany]

4. Both Ryan and McConnell knew about "it" and went along the Russia/Trump/Republican crimes

How did McConnell know that by blocking Garland he would get a different person to
vote for the SCOTUS?

Ryan was caught on tape telling republicans not to talk about Trump/Russia because
"Families keep secrets."

I hope Mueller's net is very big.

BTW 30 to 35% of Americans are OK w/Russia hacking our elections because
"nothing is sweeter than liberal tears."

[RandomAccess]

31. There are at least 2 more factors that make Republicans

impervious to the Putin problem:

Over 400 Trump Docs Leaked: Russian Money Tied to McConnell, Cruz, Rubio, McCain, and RNC
http://www.bluedotdaily.com/over-400-trump-docs-leaked-russian-money-tied-to-mcconnell-cruz-rubio-mccain-and-rnc/


AND:

The emerging alliance between Putin and Trump’s God squad; The unlikely partnership is years in the making.
https://thinkprogress.org/religious-right-russia-3e80e2ea2e4a/

Reverence for Putin on the Right Buys Trump Cover
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/14/us/politics/putin-trump-conservatives.html?_r=0
The veneration of Mr. Putin helps explain why revelations about Russia’s involvement in the election — including recent reports that members of Mr. Trump’s inner circle set up a meeting at which they expected a representative of the Russian government to give them incriminating information about Hillary Clinton — and Mr. Trump’s reluctance to acknowledge it, have barely penetrated the consciousness of the president’s conservative base.

Guns and religion: How American conservatives grew closer to Putin’s Russia
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-the-republican-right-found-allies-in-russia/2017/04/30/e2d83ff6-29d3-11e7-a616-d7c8a68c1a66_story.html
Growing up in the 1980s, Brian Brown was taught to think of the communist Soviet Union as a dark and evil place.
But Brown, a leading opponent of same-sex marriage, said that in the past few years he has started meeting Russians at conferences on family issues and finding many kindred spirits.
Brown, president of the National Organization for Marriage, has visited Moscow four times in four years, including a 2013 trip during which he testified before the Duma as Russia adopted a series of anti-gay laws.
“What I realized was that there was a great change happening in the former Soviet Union,” he said. “There was a real push to re-instill Christian values in the public square.”

How Russia Became the Leader of the Global Christian Right
While the U.S. passed gay-rights laws, Moscow moved hard the other way.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/02/how-russia-became-a-leader-of-the-worldwide-christian-right-214755

[Botany]

32. Thanx for posting

BTW the endless and unneeded hearings into HRC in Congress were done in
concert with the information Russia got by hacking HRC/DNC's emails and then
edited and leaked out on Wikileaks and Fox News.

[spanone]

6. K&R...

[mopinko]

7. step 1- steal the election

step 2- steal everything.

[dalton99a]

8. Yep.

[Botany]

9. Koch and Mercers ... they just don't have enough money

Steal elections
then:

gerrymander districts

push through "citizen's united" In Ohio Ted Strickland didn't have a chance because of C.U..

have outlets such as Fox spread lies as "the truth"

keep people afraid

get rid of or downgrade education

put people in charge of agencies who have no idea what they are doing

electronic voting

have "pastors" push the bull shit too

[kairos12]

23. No truer words have been said on DU!!

[oasis]

11. MAGgot Sen.Johnson played possum with his early "no" opposition to

the TAX Scam Bill. Then he "sees the light" and leads the other GOP holdouts to a "yes" vote.

[AmericanActivist]

13. Illegitimate they are and the remedy from

the past of “vote them out” as in what people are saying about 2018 and 2020 is a thing of the past because “elections” are no longer verifiable or audited and they are hackable therefore they are not democratic.

[hedda_foil]

25. Elections have NEVER BEEN verifiable and audited. Ever hear of ballot box stuffing and flushing?

Ballot boxes later found washing up onshore? Substitution of a phoney box of ballots for the real ones?

[triron]

14. There is a deep flaw in a societal structure that has allowed this to happen!

History will not look back kindly to this cluster of events.

[triron]

15. kick for visibility

[joanbarnes]

16. Blunt did not win.

[Honeycombe8]

18. It's so upsetting. No words. People are stupid. So stupid.

I'm not the sharpest tack on the board, but I could see what was happening last year. If I could see it, how is it possible that others could not? Blinded by their pure hatred?

[L. Coyote]

19. Stealing elections pays BIGLY. Lest we forget, this was the result of cheating.

Without all the voter suppression laws, other election interference, etc., we wouldn't be here now with a corrupted government.

[58Sunliner]

20. The only way we surmount this is with a sustained effort. We are the majority and we can do this.

History has proven that corruption is a self-destructive means. It inevitably fails. Mueller and all the others who are trying to restore our country from this deeply corrosive abuse have my sincere gratitude.
This was rigged and enabled by the slime in the senate. May they burn in hell.

[saidsimplesimon]

21. Democrats

should not concede any close election in any state without a fight. We should also fund these efforts to insure elections are not lost due to dirty rethug tricks or Russian interference.

This is happening in Virginia. I read this on another Democratic blog:

Virginia State House 2017 election results are being disputed. Democrats have asked for recounts in the 28th, 40th, and 94th districts, where Republicans lead by 82, 106, and 10 votes, respectively.

[C Moon]

22. I recall it looked like McConnell was losing, as well.

[Initech]

27. God I would love to get that asshole out of the senate!

[McCamy Taylor]

26. Our selected leaders now answer to Russia and a handful of rich people.

The rest of us are dirt under their feet.

[Initech]

28. And Fox News.

They pretty much do whatever Fox News tells them to. We should stop classifying Fox News as a news agency and start calling them a rogue intelligence agency with hostile intentions.

[malaise]

29. I said so the day after and I maintain that history

will absolve me - they stole it.