Ed McBroom is a dairy farmer in Michigan. He is also a Republican state senator who chairs the Oversight Committee of the legislature. It was his job to determine whether the election of 2020 was marked by fraud, as Trump said on many occasions. McBroom led hearings and investigated the claims. After eight months of searching, McBroom said he was unable to find evidence of fraud. His committee’s conclusion: “This Committee found no evidence of widespread or systematic fraud in Michigan’s prosecution of the 2020 election.”
The stakes could hardly have been higher. Against a backdrop of confusion and suspicion and frightening civic friction—with Trump claiming he’d been cheated out of victory, and anecdotes about fraud coursing through every corner of the state—McBroom had led an exhaustive probe of Michigan’s electoral integrity. His committee interviewed scores of witnesses, subpoenaed and reviewed thousands of pages of documents, dissected the procedural mechanics of Michigan’s highly decentralized elections system, and scrutinized the most trafficked claims about corruption at the state’s ballot box in November. McBroom’s conclusion hit Lansing like a meteor: It was all a bunch of nonsense…
“Our clear finding is that citizens should be confident the results represent the true results of the ballots cast by the people of Michigan,” McBroom wrote in the report. “There is no evidence presented at this time to prove either significant acts of fraud or that an organized, wide-scale effort to commit fraudulent activity was perpetrated in order to subvert the will of Michigan voters.”
For good measure, McBroom added: “The Committee strongly recommends citizens use a critical eye and ear toward those who have pushed demonstrably false theories for their own personal gain…”
Soon after the report was released, Trump issued a thundering statement calling McBroom’s investigation “a cover up, and a method of getting out of a Forensic Audit for the examination of the Presidential contest.” The former president then published the office phone numbers for McBroom and Michigan’s GOP Senate majority leader, Mike Shirkey, urging his followers to “call those two Senators now and get them to do the right thing, or vote them the hell out of office!”
McBroom had grown up a “history nerd.” He idolized the revolutionary Founders. He inhaled biographies of George Washington and McBroom had grown up a “history nerd.” He idolized the revolutionary Founders. He inhaled biographies of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and Teddy Roosevelt. He revered the institution of the American presidency. And here was the 45th president, calling him out by name, accusing him of unthinkable treachery.
The Atlantic has the story. I hope it is not behind a paywall.
The Boston Globe wrote about other Republican officials who investigated the election results in their state and told the truth. The Globe titled its story: They kept the wheels on democracy as Trump tried to steal an election. Now they’re paying the price.
There was Republican Bill Gates, a member of the board of supervisors in Maricopa County, Arizona (Phoenix). He and his colleagues certified Biden’s victory and were reviled by angry Trump supporters.
There was Liz Cheney, who sacrificed her leadership position in the House of Representatives rather than follow the party line. She put her oath to the Constitution above the wishes of Trump and paid the price.
There was Aaron Van Langevelde, who lost his position on the Michigan Board of State Canvassers because he voted to certify Biden’s victory (Biden led Trump by 150,000 votes in Michigan). The Republican leadership punished him for his courage.
Van Langevelde revealed he faced pressure from political leaders to withhold certification in a March 26 speech at Cardozo Law School, which he provided to the Globe and which has not previously been reported.
“We were asked to take power we didn’t have. What would have been the cost if we had done so?,” Van Langevelde asked. “Constitutional chaos and the loss of our integrity.”
“There were a lot of people who would have preferred I said nothing, voted no, or abstained. I am sure a lot of people didn’t want me to make it to that meeting,” he continued. “I did everything I could to make it to that meeting, even though I knew it would cost me my position on the Board….”
That backlash could very well cost some Republicans their political careers. In Georgia, Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger stood by the election results that gave Biden a narrow, 11,779-vote lead and resisted Trump’s entreaties to “find” more votes for him. Now, Raffensperger faces a challenge from a Trump-endorsed congressman, Jody Hice, who embraced Trump’s “stop the steal” movement. Few in the state are betting on Raffensperger’s survival.
“He’s done, he’s over,” said Jay Williams, a Republican strategist in the state. “There’s just no way he’s going to recover.”
Vice President Mike Pence let Trump’s fictions about the election fester through much of the fall, but he ultimately presided over the certification of Biden’s victory at the Capitol after rioters called for him to be punished — even hanged, some said. The move was widely seen as a betrayal by the Republican base and could imperil his political ambitions…
In Philadelphia, Al Schmidt, a Republican city commissioner, pushed back on the conspiracy theories that revolved around his city through television appearances and press conferences, particularly after Trump claimed repeatedly that, “bad things happen in Philadelphia.”
“They were lying about what was going on in front of us,” said Schmidt, who was still working in the city’s tabulation facility when, on Nov. 11, Trump tweeted about him by name. Soon, he and his family received threats that named his children and called him a traitor.
“What they were really saying is, ‘If you lie, this will go away,’” Schmidt said. He wouldn’t….
As some key officials who resisted election chaos lose their jobs, face uncertain political futures, or retire, experts are also worried about another development. Since January, at least 14 states have passed bills in state houses that give partisan lawmakers more power over elections and election officials….
Gates, the member of the board of supervisors in Phoenix, can see the latest iteration of that from his office. He has a view of the Veterans Memorial Coliseum, where his county’s ballots were “audited” by a private company in an exercise that is widely seen as a sham.
Gates opposes the audit. He and his colleagues refused to hand over ballots and voting machines until they were forced to do so under a court ruling following a subpoena from the Senate president. He has continued to speak out against the audit, even as it draws a parade of Republicans around the country who have come to admire it.
“This is about an attempt to delegitimize our democratic system,” Gates said.
For now, he is trying not to let the threatening messages — including a voice mail reviewed by the Globe that called for him to be given an “Alabama necktie” — get to him. And though he wrestled with the decision, he’s resolved to run again to keep his job, in an attempt to keep the guardrails on the electoral system for next time.
“If following the law … leads me to losing my next political race, that’s fine,” he said. “We have to stand up to these people.”
Diane Ravitch's blog 
The Democrats spent four years bleating about “collusion” even after the Mueller Report specifically said there was no collusion and all the main Russiagate points were debunked. ( https://taibbi.substack.com/p/russiagate-is-wmd-times-a-million ) How are the Republicans any more delusional?
Your repeated mischaracterization of Mueller’s findings and gaslighting of Russia’s ongoing asymmetrical attack on America are risibly self-evident.
Callisto, my response was to dienne77, not you. Sorry, that wasn’t clear.
Maybe not more but certainly as delusional as you appear in this comment. To use an overused phrase, you have gone down the rabbit hole.
As soon as the redacted Mueller was released, I read the entire thing. It described ten + instances in which Trump violated the law by impeding the investigation. Then, the main body of the findings concluded with a statement that if the Special Counsel’s office had concluded that Trump didn’t commit a crime, it would say so and THAT IT WAS NOT SAYING SO. The report went on to say that it was up to Congress, not the DOJ, to prosecute. Congress tried to do that but failed because of the Trumpeteer majority in the Senate. All this Dienne carefully skirts every time she comes on here to shill for Moscow.
But dienne77 and Mike Taibbi believe in the integrity of William Barr, so there was never any reason for them to read the actual Mueller Report (some of which was censored anyway).
Shouldn’t you join dienne77 and Taibbi in believing William Barr over your own lying eyes, Bob?
Well, NYC PSP, I don’t know. What is lying about Trump’s crimes paying these days? And do you get it in rubles or dollars?
Ha!
“What is lying about Trump’s crimes paying these days? And do you get it in rubles or dollars?”
Did you intend that question to me, or do the person who replied at 9:09am above? That person might know the going rates, and whether it is in foreign currency or not.
And yes, I actually read the report, something that many of our politicians and, clearly, many journalists who reported on the report did not do.
Then there were the people like Barr who read the report but simply lied about it.
Barr infamously claimed that the report exonerated Trump, which it clearly did not.
And one can assume that Barr can read. So, he publicly falsified what was in the report.
This is a lie. The Republicans and dienne77 spent 4 years claiming that the Democrats wouldn’t stop talking about “collusion”, when the Democrats were talking about Donald Trump ordering James Comey to stop investigating his friend Mike Flynn’s contacts with Russia and fired him when he would not obey Trump’s orders to stop an FBI investigation. They were talking about Donald Trump junior and the highest level Trump campaign operatives meeting in Trump Tower with Russians offering dirt on his political rival! They were talking about real corruption and the cover-up to that corruption directed from the White House.
dienne77 and Matt Taibbi spent 4 years claiming that Trump was an innocent man and that the media had been working together with James Comey since 2015 in a widespread plot in which they would cover up the corruption of Hillary Clinton and amplify the corruption of Trump and according to Taibbi and dienne77, the way that the FBI and the media would cover up Hillary Clinton’s corruption was to write thousands of articles that focused and used innuendo to show how corrupt HRC was, and the way that the FBI and the media would “get” Trump was to keep absolutely quiet about all the corruption surrounding Trump during the campaign, and if a Buzzfeed reporter finally mentioned Russian contacts, the NYT would immediately blast large headlines right before the 2016 election saying that the FBI had totally exonerated the Trump campaign!
And then, according to Taibbi and dienne77, the media would report the Republican/dienne77 talking points about some undefined “collusion” instead of reporting on the copious specific evidence of Trump’s corruption and cover-up, and by only using right wing narratives and talking points like Taibbi did, the media was trying to “get” Trump.
And then, the media and Matt Taibbi would report on Barr’s mischaracterization of the Mueller Report as if Barr’s word was far more trustworthy to Matt Taibbi than the actual content of the report which Taibbi was not really interested in seeing because Taibbi believed that not seeing the entire Mueller Report was a good thing because he had William Barr to tell him what was important! William Barr said that Mueller found nothing, and that’s good enough for dienne77 and Taibbi!
dienne77’s reply here is a lie. It is like saying the Watergate investigation found no evidence that Nixon ordered JFK’s assassination, and since the Watergate investigation was entirely about whether Nixon ordered JFK’s investigation and it didn’t prove that he did, the entire Watergate investigation was a Democrat and “liberal media” plot to “get” Nixon.
dienne77’s posts are always a case study in the hypocrisy of right wing Republicans. She smears Democrats based on nothing (did you know Democrats intentionally bombed and killed babies, knowing that thousands of babies would die but deciding that killing babies was a small price to pay for their goal of pleasing the oil companies and corporations?) And she then accuses the Democrats or “the liberals” of doing exactly what she herself does – making up nasty smears about candidates she hates. The thing is that the Democrats don’t do that — but dienne77 and Trump and the Republicans do.
Whenever I go to the links, I see hyperventilating Trump normalizers who condone huge corruption by Republicans and blame all the bad things that Republicans do on the Democrats!
How long before dienne77 blames Republicans dying of COVID on Democrats just like the new right wing talking points order. Those hapless Republicans who believed the lying Republicans didn’t refuse vaccines or masks or ignore social distancing rules because they believed the lying Republicans. They refused the vaccines because of a Democrat/media plot to demonize them for not taking vaccines or any other precautions! It’s Bernie’s fault! It’s AOC’s fault! Oops, dienne77 knows that she can’t blame them, but everything dienne77 posts demonstrates that she believes that they are just as evil as the Democrats since they do exactly the same supposedly “evil” thing that the Democrats do and make up lies about her beloved Trump.
NYC PSP, Dienne is right that Democrats have been known to kill babies. Sorry, but that’s simply the case. Johnson in Vietnam, for example.
Babies are killed in every war. Planes dropping bombs don’t discriminate based on age. American bombs killed babies in Europe and Japan during World War 2.
This fact should be the primary consideration in any debate about going to war (or doing something equivalent to war but not so named). Is the objective worth killing babies, which will be inevitable?
That’s a pretty high standard. In the cases of the wars against the Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan,, wars were necessary in order to stop wholesale slaughter of civilians.
Bob,
WAR has been known to kill babies. So yes, LBJ and FDR and Truman and Nixon and Abraham Lincoln all approved of actions that killed babies. This country killed babies by conducting the Civil War – but how many babies were harmed because this country preferred to let an entire race of people be enslaved and even killed rather than to go to war? Truman killed many babies when he dropped the bomb. FDR killed babies. LBJ killed babies. Did LBJ kill the most babies or did the presidents who refused to go to war immediately to stop Hitler or stop Hussein or stop southerners from owning people and doing whatever they wanted to those people do the most harm? We are all guilty. How many millions of babies and children were incinerated while this country refused to stop Hitler because some American soldiers would die?
I am not excusing how LBJ conducted the war in Vietnam, but unless I missed something in my reading, I didn’t think LBJ was looking to kill babies. Horrible choices were made, just like horrible choices were made from 1776 to 1860 when this country decided that enslaving babies, children, and their parents was a small price to pay for not killing any people.
Just like the people who wanted the first Iraq War to end without deposing Saddam are responsible for all the horrible things that Saddam did to men, women and children during the next decade. Do we only get credit for preventing the civilian casualties that would have been caused by deposing Saddam then and no blame for all the civilian suffering his being in power caused? Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International’s documentation of what Saddam did in Iraq is truly horrible.
I agree with you that LBJ is guilty, but we are all guilty of making horrible choices thinking that what we support will do good in the long run when it ends up killing people. LBJ should have pulled out troops from Vietnam immediately. But don’t forget that whenever that has happened, the invading armies have also massacred civilians. So that choice, too, would have killed babies.
I just think that is a right wing talking point – “Democrats have been known to kill babies”. Presidents have been known to kill babies by conducting wars – some wrongheaded and some perhaps for the right reasons. Presidents have been known to look the other way while other leaders massacred babies because they didn’t really care as long as they weren’t American babies.That isn’t a Democrat vs Republican thing, and surely you know that. Please don’t present that in such a way to imply that Democrats particularly like to kill babies while Republicans don’t. Americans – including our resident Democrat-hater – have always been known to condone baby deaths in other countries in the name of being “anti-war”. And they condone it in the conduct of war. Trying to smear one party as “baby killers” is simply a lie.
You forgot to say “you, liberals”. Did you get in trouble when you accidentally included that phrase in a previous post you made?
Well, dienne, that’s not exactly what your link says—in fact it was published before the Mueller Report was issued, just as Barr’s “summary” letter came out. Taibbi’s article is an indictment of the press coverage, not of “Democrats.” It’s very good article, very thorough. He’s a bit over the top; the substack comment thread and this article https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-04-01/no-russiagate-isn-t-this-generation-s-wmd provide some good perspective and countering points. But his point about our split press is important: in many instances, major liberal outlets never retracted or walked back coverage that turned out to be speculation based on unconfirmed reports, or even flat-out wrong– they just left that to the conservative press.
bethree5,
My longer reply didn’t post, but I just wanted to point out that “collusion” was always a right wing talking point and rarely spoken by anyone else — do you remember Diane Ravitch constantly attacking Trump for “collusion”?? Of course not, because that word means nothing and can’t even be defined properly. The people who couldn’t stop saying “collusion” (as part of their shouting “no collusion” over and over again) were Republicans (and not coincidentally, people like the above poster).
The Republicans (and people like the above) shrieked over and over about “no collusion” the way they now shriek “white people aren’t evil like CRT teaches our victimized white students”. Their modus operandi is to frame everything in false terms. Especially when their goal is totally change the subject from talking about anything negative about the Republicans into demonizing the Democrats. This is not about having a genuine discussion with supposedly non right wing trolls who happen to believe every word that William Barr says over their own lying eyes! It is about trying to have a discussion with someone who will always believe William Barr over anything you post that is negative about Trump or challenges their false narrative that everything the Democrats do is evil and everything the Republicans do should not be talked about because the exaggerated evil of the Democrats is always the only subject allowed.
Apparently, this poster believes that Republican who said that there was no voter fraud is just as honest as Republicans who said that the Mueller Report and all other Trump White House corruption was a “nothing burger”! We are supposed to accept that as the “truth”.
And the GOP will frame the narrative about January 6 as a partisan attack, a rowdy but normal tourist visit, an effort by Pelosi to smear Saint Donald.
NYCPSP, I agree the rw response to the Mueller Report is weasel-worded to suit their agenda [as with CRT & Jan 6]. The Taibbi article d77 linked doesn’t support her argument, & is a little off-topic, but it’s a fascinating (& disturbing) read. (If you decide to, remember I said it’s a bit overblown, but scan the comment thread & the opposing article I linked above for nuance.) It’s sad MSM chose to feed the frenzy with sloppy journalism. If they hadn’t set public expectation for a quarter-pounder, they would have been better positioned to pounce on the meaty bits buried under the stuff Mueller felt DOJ couldn’t indict.
I expect to hear that very framing from our resident purveyor of right wing talking points above.
I have noticed that our resident democrat hater always uses the exact same framing as right wing Republicans.
It is never the framing used by real progressives like AOC. It is always the same framing used by right wing Republicans and their trolls. It is very suspicious. If this poster’s comments were similar to what Bernie or AOC say, it would be believable that the poster was a progressive. But instead it is always a rehash of Republican talking points where the blame for all the bad policies is never Republicans.
bethree,
Thank you for the Bloomberg article link. I thought it completely undermined Taibbi’s agenda with clear evidence.
I disagree about the mainstream media being especially “sloppy” or overhyping and I thought the Bloomberg article explained that Taibbi characterization was rather inaccurate. If anything, the media failed by overcompensating in legitimizing the false Republican narrative. It was typical media coverage.
So when Barr falsely presented the Mueller Report to exonerate Trump, the media accepted it. Not because they previous hyped something but because they had always presented it as a both sides narrative. As the Bloomberg article pointed out, most of the earlier media reports didn’t hype, but they just reported facts that remained true. Only Barr’s false narrative changed it.
“This is about an attempt to delegitimize our democratic system,” [Bill] Gates said”, with not a hint of a smile on his face
Good point.
Must be hard these days sharing the name with the Billyanaire.
The parties are the same, Biden is equivalent to Trump? Please, spare me the utter nonsense. With all its failings and warts of which there are many, at least the Democrats did not incite an insurrection and the decertification of a legal and fair election. Trump and too many Republicans are hyping and promoting a huge lie, that Trump really won the election and the insurrectionists were just peaceful tourists. The GOP is so far off the rails that it is no longer an ordinary political party, it is a dangerous cult of lies, obfuscations and baseless slanders: such as that Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi are socialists, which is hilarious.
“Rabbit hole”? “Delusional”? Good ad hominem jabs but vapid rebuttal. Perhaps familiarizing yourself with US intel regarding the corrosive effects of Russian disinformation on our democracy and Russia’s wide-ranging ongoing cyber hacking activities would be helpful.
She may be one of the Russian disinformation trolls.
^^who else would try so hard to distract from an interesting post about a Republican with integrity that makes the very important point that the voter fraud evidence that the Republicans are using to disenfranchise voters is completely false?
I mean, instead of being outraged about the disenfranchisement of potentially very progressive voters based on lies of Republicans, she is outraged because we all refused to believe William Barr’s mischaracterization of the Mueller report. That bothers this poster more than voter suppression and lies?
She calls us “liberals” — she uses phrases like “you, liberals” as a slur. I’m guessing it’s one of the Trump fanboys posting. “You, liberals” is a very favorite slur of the Trump fanboys and this poster accidentally used it previously. My guess is that is something that the poster uses when posting elsewhere, where “you,liberals” makes the propaganda this poster is purveying more believable coming from someone who absolutely despises “liberals” and everything they stand for.
speduktr was talking to Comrade Dienne, I think.
Yup.
Unless you believe, you shall not be miffed.
Placing faith in the statements of “electoral saviors”
seems to require belief in electoral saviors.
How and why this faith continues, is beyond me.
Maintaining the polarization of the battle, is key
to the divide and rule stratagem.
Full speed ahead…
Negative social sanction is a powerful tool for reining in iniquity.
Anti-vaxxers also tell a big lie.
Vox (6-19-2019)- “Religion and vaccine refusal are linked. A major global survey helps explain the problem of vaccine mistrust….North America was the only high income region where people who follow a religion were much more likely to say they side with a belief system over science whenever disagreement arises.”
Religio-facsists (e.g. Laura Ingraham) exploit conservative religion’s sheep and in the case of Covid-19, the religio-facsists’ propaganda weakened the U.S., strengthening the nation’s enemies.
We should be thankful that the medical research from aborted fetuses survived the religious.
Does anyone remember the 5 to 4 vote in the US Supreme Court that stopped the recount in Florida making G. W. Bush president?
Has anyone filed a court case to put an end to the BIG LIE and stop all the illegal recounts that are not following state laws that are spelled out in state constitutions?
“In 1919, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes introduced the specter of a man falsely
shouting ‘fire’ in a theater into First Amendment law. Nearly one hundred years later,
this remains the most enduring analogy in constitutional law. It has been relied on in
hundreds of constitutional cases, and it has permeated popular discourse on the scope of individual rights.”
https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1748&context=wmborj
“The Supreme Court has recognized that the First Amendment permits restrictions upon the content of free speech in a few limited areas, including obscenity , defamation, fraud, incitement, fighting words, and speech integral to criminal conduct.”
https://law.justia.com/constitution/us/amendment-01/16-government-restraint-of-content-of-expression.html
It is boldly apparent that Traitor Trump’s BIG LIE and every elected official that supports Traitor Trump’s BIG lie is allegedly guilty of defamation, fraud, incitement, fighting words, and speech integral to criminal conduct.
Has anyone filed a court case to hold Traitor Trump and his traitorous allies accountable?
The thing I recall about that was that they used the Equal protection clause to stop the recount.
And then said that it was a very unusual circumstance so should not be used as a precedent.
Sandra Day O’Connor, years afterward expressed ” regrets” about her decision, which effectively handed the Presidency to her man, Dumbya.
“Maybe the Court should have said, ‘We’re not going to take it, goodbye.’ ”
She said the case “stirred up the public” and “gave the Court a less than perfect reputation.”
In other words, she didn’t regret her decision, just that the public were onto the ruse.
I think Sandra Day O’Connor meant that the SCOTUS decision discredited the Court. It is not supposed to get into politics. That should be left to voters. Today we need the Court to stop gerrymandering and other ruses to rig the vote. SCOTUS should protect the right to vote, not decide elections.
And ironically, back in 2000 the Supreme Court – with Sandra Day O’Connor’s help – stopped a single recount of the Florida vote! The Supreme Court stopped the kind of recount that immediately happened in Georgia in 2020 because the election was close.
The Supreme Court could have simply said “every vote in the state of Florida should be recounted”. But they politicized this and searched for any reason to deny a proper recount. Since the Democrats just asked for a recount in a selected area of Florida, the Supreme Court excused their own right wing politicization by saying that the Democrats should have asked for a statewide recount. If the Democrats had asked for a statewide recount, we can assume that the Supreme Court would have said “the Democrats are asking for too much recounting, they should have limited the area where they are recounting votes”. Their goal was to stop a recount because the guy they wanted to be president had a tiny lead.
When your only precedent is “power”, you say one thing one day and another thing another day. Just like having a Supreme Court vacancy 9 months before a presidential election is not enough time to fill the vacancy but 6 weeks before the election is plenty of time to fill a vacancy. It is Orwellian. There is no right and wrong — there is only grasping for power.
I know what she was pretending to say. But I don’t think she actually believed it.
If she had, she never would have behaved the way she did.
I recall the supreme court decision. The thing that appalled me the most was the lack of any attempt to mitigate the circumstances that surrounded the controversy. No selection process that is so dependent on just a few votes can produce good leadership. We are entering a phase where it is advantageous for the republicans to suppress decisive votes in particular places in order to win elections. None of this would be possible if true electoral reform had taken place.
Tiebreakers of various types might have been put into place. No one even suggested this. As a result, we had to sit back and watch a comical attempt to challenge voting where the votes were close. Adversaries looked on laughingly as our democratic values languished in the indecisiveness of a lengthened transfer of power.
Real electoral reform is needed. We should no longer elect a president with primaries. Candidates for president should fulfill some general qualifications to be placed on a rank choice ballot. A series of four ballots should determine who will the the president over a period of months, during which time the field would be narrowed each time. No electoral college to make millions of votes meaningless (my vote for president has not been counted but twice in my lifetime).
History is narrative. Telling the story of people who resisted the unconstitutional attempt to steal the presidency is essential for the preservation of whatever democratic ideals have made it through the Cold War. But more important is the narrative of personal courage that become a part of the mythology of representation as an important part of our journey toward the ideal.
Myths are so important to us. These civil myths must be a part of our stories. Bigger than life, they point is to a day when there will be more balanced representation in our government. Keep the big stories coming.
Now that Ed McBroom has done the right thing, and now that he has seen the reality of the modern republicans, it becomes incumbent on him to speak loudly to his country that Trumpism is morally bankrupt. The rest of us do not possess his bully pulpit.
The Supremes’ Greatest Hits!
Kavepaws (To the Tune of “Baby Love”):
Beer I love, oh beer I love
I need a beer. Oh how I need one, love!
All the press now does is treat me bad
Call for vetting that I never had.
Even Trump about me now has changed his song!
Please don’t tell them now what I did wrong.
Amy Coney Barrett (To the Tune of “Stop in the Name of the Love”)
Stop! In Jehovah’s name!
Don’cha know, there’s a beating heart!
Stop! In Jehovah’s name!
Medieval piety’s where we should start.
Turn Roe o-o-ver.
Turn Roe o-o-ver.
Samuel Elite-o (To the Tune of “You Can’t Hurry Love”):
You need hope, you say—
Oo-oo—to ease your mind.
You want a chance, you say.
‘scuse me but that’s declined.
Big Daddy says,
You cannot have equity.
You’ll just have to wait.
(I mean until the end of time.)
It’s a game of take and take.
You cannot take shares
Of what’s on rich peoples’ plates.
The billionaires, they have it all.
Accept it, that is just your fate.
Sorry. Revised.
The Supremes’ Greatest Hits!
Kavepaws (To the Tune of “Baby Love”):
Beer I love, oh beer I love
I need a beer. Oh how I need one, love!
All the press now does is treat me bad
Call for vetting that I never had.
Even Trump about me’s changed his song!
Tell them please,oh tell them please,
I did no wrong.
Amy Coney Barrett (To the Tune of “Stop in the Name of the Love”)
Stop! In Jehovah’s name!
Don’cha know, there’s a beating heart!
Stop! In Jehovah’s name!
Medieval piety’s where we should start.
Turn Roe o-o-ver.
Turn Roe o-o-ver.
Samuel Elite-o (To the Tune of “You Can’t Hurry Love”):
You need hope, you say—
Oo-oo—to ease your mind.
You want a chance, you say.
‘scuse me but that’s declined.
Big Daddy says,
You cannot have equity.
You’ll just have to wait.
(I mean until the end of time.)
It’s a game of take and take.
You cannot take shares
Of what’s on rich peoples’ plates.
The billionaires, they have it all.
Accept it, that is just your fate.
Thank you, Diane, for sharing these inspiring stories! Beautiful!!!