As of this writing, the GOP (Gang Of Plunderers) has won 215 House districts, the Democrats 206. That leaves 14 districts where the votes are still being counted. There are 435 House seats. 218 constitutes a majority. So the Republicans just need to win just 3 of the remaining 14 districts to retain their control of the House.
This is over.
Given
that the Republican Party now is a cult with a Leader, Trump, who has
virtually total domination of the party, the U.S. government as of
January will be in Trump's hands. The Congress, the Executive Branch,
and the Republican Judiciary. Even when he was out of office, that
Judiciary bent over backwards to shield him from prosecution for his
crimes. His hand-picked Federal District Judge, the lawless Aileen
Cannon, had control over the criminal case arising from his theft of a
large quantity of classified documents. This criminal judge delayed the
case for years, then suddenly this year dismissed the charges on the
spurious grounds that the special prosecutor was illegally appointed. (A
completely ridiculous assertion with no basis in law or precedent.)
This meant that there would be no trial (assuming the prosecutor got the
charges reinstated in the Trump-aligned judiciary). Federal Judges at
the Appeals Court level and the Supreme Court dragged their feet on
ruling on appeals (spurious ones by Trump's lawyers, meritorious ones by
special prosecutor Jack Smith) and threw up roadblock after roadblock
to bringing the criminal Trump to justice.
The Republican Supreme
Court even issued a gratuitous and shocking ruling, out of the blue,
that presidents are IMMUNE FROM PROSECUTION for ANYTHING they do in
office "in their official capacity." A meaningless qualifier, since all presidents always claim that everything they do is part of their official duties.
Some people, both establishment types and some aspiring to be establishment types, not unreasonably fretted that a president could order a Navy SEAL team to murder a political opponent and be immune. But that sort of thing already happens. It just happens to people that "respectable" bourgeois types don't care about. Trump sent a U.S. Marshall's death squad to murder Michael Reinoehl, an Antifa activist who shot and killed a fascist stormtrooper type. [1]
And under Obama the government murdered journalist Michael Hastings in California and Black Lives Matter commentator Sandra Bland
in Texas. Obama ordered weekly murders of "terrorists," and we are
supposed to believe all were overseas. Many were by no reasonable
definition "terrorists." such as farmers, peasants, and children.
Obama
gifted Trump and all future presidents with the power to imprison
American citizens in the Guantanamo Bay torture center or any secret
site without charges and with no legal recourse. He did this by
attaching a new legal authority to the "Defense" budget one year. Some
leading dissidents brought a lawsuit, which they won in a Federal
district court. The Obama regime filed an "emergency" appeal the same or
next day and got the Federal Appellate court in New York City to throw
out the case entirely, claiming the dissidents didn't have "standing," -
because they hadn't yet been rendered to a secret torture center! (Of
course once they are, they'll be helpless to communicate with the
outside world. How's THAT for a Catch-22?)
Obama fatuously
reassured the public not to worry about this new anti-human law, because
HE wasn't going to use it. What about future presidents, asshole? What a
loathsome jackass.
1] Trump was very briefly
asked about this assassination by a reporter, and Trump said something
like "You had to do it," kill Reinoehl. That answer was considered the
end of the matter by the murderous corporate propaganda system.
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