Biden Opens Struggle for America's Soul, Local G.O.P. Primary Won by Nut Job, the Bannon Scandal Breaks, The Post Office Scandal Continues and a Bit about this Blog

Biden Accepts Nomination

Only your votes can make him our 46th President

Last night, in a powerful speech, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden attacked President Trump's failures and promised to bring an end to this "season of darkness" in what amounts to a struggle for America’s soul.

Make sure that you are registered and that you vote as early as possible in person or by mail.  There is no choice, as Biden's words made it clear.  Trump must go.

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About Emails and This Blog

Up until about eighteen months ago, each time I added a new posting to my blog (www.jackspotpourri.com), I sent out an Email to about 140 Email addresses, summarizing what the posting contained and suggesting they look at it via a link which that Email contained.    Eventually I realized that most of these recipients couldn’t care less about the blog so I stopped doing it that way.  Instead, I fully relied on a link to my blog which appears on any Emails I sent to anyone.   I found that there was no reduction in the number of people accessing the blog on their own or from that link.

I do, however, still maintain an Email list of about 40 addresses of those whom I feel are really interested in following the blog and might not be getting those other routine Emails with the link to it mentioned above.  Usually the Emails I sent to these 40 addresses include something, usually political, which I feel is particularly worthwhile.  And of course, there is a link to the blog on that Email.  I have found that traffic on the blog increases whenever I send out an Email to that “list of 40.”  That is really the underlying purpose of the list of 40,” to juice up the number who visit www.jackspotpourri.com.

This message, which you now are reading, recently went out to that “list of 40,” and is appearing on this blog itself at this time.  If you know anyone whom you feel should be added to that “list of 40,” just provide me with their Email address.  They need not live in Cascade Lakes.  The blog has followers all over the world, as enumerated in the my posting on August 14, 2020.

                                                    

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Nut Job Wins G.O.P. Primary to Oppose Congresswoman Lois Frankel

Congresswoman Frankel

The Republican primary for the seat in Congress from Florida’s 21^st Congressional District (Lois Frankel’s seat) was just won by Laura Loomer, who easily defeated some normal (?) traditional Republicans, getting 42.5% of the G.O.P. vote.  Loomer is what I would call a nut job, banned from most internet media for her baseless, conspiracy-founded postings.  She will run against Frankel in November, lose in what is a very strong Democratic district but take advantage of her candidacy to continue to spout poisonous lies. Her primary loyalty seems to be to the QAnon organization of right-wing nut job conspiracy-believers.  Of course, the First Amendment allows her to say what she says.   Most important is that the President welcomed her victory and accepted with it her inane ideas and those of her supporters.   He doesn’t care where his support comes from.

QAnon followers have given up on reasonable thought processes, and profess cult-like ideas similar to those which can inspire real acts of violence such as the pizza shooting in Washington by a nut job who believed a Clinton-led group of perverts was imprisoning children in the basement of a pizzeria, and the Walmart shooter in El Paso who drove 600 miles to try to prevent a “Hispanic invasion of Texas.”  So "nut jobs" can really be dangerous. 

The President accepts this kind of dangerous support from screwballs like Loomer knowing these are the kind of people who are gullible enough and ignorant enough to vote for him.  The parallel which comes to mind are the mindless followers of Jim Jones’ cult of forty years ago, 900 of whom swallowed the ‘Kool Aid’ he had prepared for them and died. 

In straightforward reporting of the primary election results, the Palm Beach Post article said that it was “a stunning achievement for the self-described ‘Most Banned Woman on the Planet’ and raises a major question:  In 2020, what defines a Republican and what does the party stand for?” 

I can answer that question!  There is no longer a Republican party.  The alleged party using that name today just contains (1) nut jobs like Loomer, (2) racists and bigots of many varieties (3) believers in gun violence as a right and (4) pathetic office-holders who know that without Trump’s support and that of the Loomer-type people, they would be out of a job.  But even they will go down to defeat in November, when they will find that their being Trump supporters will be proven to be a burden rather than an advantage.   If Rick Scott or Marco Rubio or Ron DeSantis had to run on the same ticket as Trump this year, they would lose!

But remember, Loomer received 42.5% of the vote in the G.O.P. primary.  That’s a frighteningly big number when you recognize that Republicans are dangerous to the health of America!  Trump and his enablers proved that in more ways than one.   

JL

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Late Breaking News from Corruption-Central 

I won’t even go into yesterday’s arrest of Trump 2016 advisor Steve Bannon for fraud in connection with funds he was privately raising to help pay for Trump’s wall on the Mexican border.  Keep watching TV (not Fox) and reading the papers. 

One of the more scenic locations
for villas to be built at Guantanamo

Suffice it to say, a lot of the money collected through Bannon’s efforts went somewhere other than toward building that wall.  What was done was clearly illegal.  But because they had a friend in the White House (who claims he didn’t know anything about it) they carelessly left a paper trail, documenting their lawbreaking activities and those involved in it.  So it looks like Bannon is headed in the same direction as the others involved in electing Donald Trump to the presidency, Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, Rick Gates (and others), all convicted felons, some of whom are avoiding imprisonment at this moment because of their relationship with the “lawbreaker-in-chief.”  It is inconceivable that he himself will not be drawn into the web and with no one to pardon him, also become a candidate for a beachfront villa in Guantanamo, where they all probably will end up.

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The Post Office Story Continues

Postmaster General deJoy testifies before Congress today. Keep watching TV (not Fox) and reading the papers to keep up with the story.  He’s another millionaire crook who bought a government appointment through campaign donations.  Although he supposedly has stopped cutting postal services and operations, the fate of the hundreds of mail sorting machines, perhaps already destroyed, dismantled or just plain missing in action, is unknown.  Doing what he did to the Postal Service, probably at the direct request of the President, violates the Constituion.  That is a crime.  There should be a place reserved for him as well in Guantanamo.

Postal mail sorting equipment - fate unknown

Trump needs to sabotage the Postal Service in order to reduce the amount of voting which will be done by mail in the upcoming election in part because of the Cofid19 pandemic, a tragedy which will keep many away from physical voting places.  The more people who vote, the greater will be his defeat, and the weaker his arguments about election fraud, certain to be made, will be.  So vote, please!

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How much longer can he
dodge indictment?

And the Courts have once again ordered that Trump’s tax records be made available to the Southern District of New York’s Federal prosecutors.  Looks like all of the Donald’s chickens are coming home to roost at the same time … and they have diahrrea!  Tragically, Trump is skilled at postponing legal actions for years, and years, and years, and more years, till they finally go away.  Ask anyone to whom he owed money.  So,

Keep watching TV (not Fox) and reading the papers.