kemp

Ever since Gov. Brian Kemp allowed Donald Trump to go down in a haze of gory following the latter’s embarrassing loss in the once reliably red state of Georgia, he’s been persona non grata among a large faction of MAGAs. Two county GOP parties voted to censure him over his...

More
  • June 5, 2021

The most disturbing part about this story is that MyPillow guy Mike Lindell still has a jet. Why hasn’t he been sued into a lukewarm puddle of adipose and hotdish-redolent mustache clippings yet? Come on, Dominion. Go do that voodoo that you do so well. Of course, despite getting sued...

More
  • May 29, 2021

Not prosecuting Trump for what seems to be incontrovertible evidence of his Stormy Daniels payoff seems to be small potatoes only if the big enchiladas are left on the plate. Yet the GQP thinks that they still need him, likely because there are no alternatives, what with Ted Cruz having dinner with...

More
  • May 7, 2021

How Trumpian… x The event, which featured a cheering crowd behind DeSantis as he spoke on Fox & Friends, was billed as a rally “for the best governor in the USA.” It's unclear if it was an official governor's event or campaign rally. https://t.co/tW320OIEwE — Axios (@axios) May 6, 2021...

More
  • May 6, 2021

Much like with the election of Barack Obama, after the Derek Chauvin conviction, America was quick to congratulate itself. The fallacy of a post-racial America turned out to be as foolish as the idea of a post-racial justice system. I can still see the self-congratulatory smiles from my white colleagues...

More
  • April 26, 2021

Previous guy and the GQP continue to be weird and entirely predictable. Weird and even entirely predictable — Kim Mangone (@KimMangone) April 4, 2021 Mike Huckabee doubled down on the usual RW hate, timing it for his evangelical Easter program shown on some shopping channels, because there’s no such thing...

More
  • April 4, 2021

Black Girl Magic has become the nouveau riche way modern society describes the accomplishments of the current crop of black women and girls, but have existed throughout history. What could be more magic than the lonely trips as a conductor on the Underground Railroad rescuing enslaved Africans led by Harriet Tubman;...

More
  • April 2, 2021

Social Security Works Executive Director Alex Lawson discusses Trump’s crony delaying COVID stimulus checks. GOP voter suppression and a failed MSM presser. Alex Lawson explains COVID stimulus check delay. Chat – Join Politics Done Right Live weekdays @ 3:00 PM Central Video Zoom: LINK — Live Calls: (346)248-7799 ID:254 0...

More
  • March 26, 2021

Yesterday the state of Georgia defined election integrity as—black people not voting. Republicans love to throw around the image of liberal politicians in hemp-filled rooms manipulating the lives of “real Americans.” Well last night, in a guarded room, Georgia governor Brian Kemp, flanked by a clique of hoodless, conveniently masked...

More
  • March 26, 2021

This is what you call bad optics. Like really, really bad. Oedipus seeing Jocasta bad. (Yeah, my references are really old, but I couldn’t find a way to plausibly work Match Game into this one.) So you know that awful, awful Jim Crow-style voter suppression bill Georgia just passed? Well, the way...

More
  • March 26, 2021

Politicians like Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves are responsible for implicitly continuing Trump’s Big Lie. We must hold them accountable. Governor Tate Reeves and Trump’s BIG LIE See full episodes here. Jake Tapper said that after he heard Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves‘s response to a colleague about President Biden’s election’s legitimacy, he wanted...

More
  • March 8, 2021

Yep, he’s running scared: Republican strategists aligned with Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) on Monday launched an outside group aimed at hitting Democrat Stacey Abrams over her possible 2022 gubernatorial run. The independent group, dubbed “Stop Stacey,” says it will work to uncover what it called the former gubernatorial candidate's “shady voter groups that...

More
  • February 1, 2021

There’s a huge, grim, sprawling crisis unfolding right now in the U.S. And by that I mean, Donald Trump may not get the warm sendoff he’d hoped for. x The president is currently scheduled to leave Washington early Wednesday morning. He wants a send-off, aides had at one point discussed a rally...

More
  • January 15, 2021

A prepared Stacey Abrams did not allow This Week host to create a false equivalence between her Georgia election and Trump's. Stacey Abrams sets the record straight x x YouTube Video See full episodes here. There is absolutely no similarity between Donald Trump's refusal to concede his loss to Stacey...

More
  • January 4, 2021

Politico says Trump has told his political aides to monitor statements by Republicans that oppose his efforts to hold onto the Presidency with an eye toward supporting primary challengers in 2022 and maybe beyond. High on the list would likely be the governors and other Republican state office holders in Georgia...

More
  • December 24, 2020

Chris Christie has gone from Trump enabler/defender to one who criticizes him with words that will pierce the president's ego and more. Chris Christie no longer an enabler x x YouTube Video See full episodes here. Many wondered what was in it for Chris Christie. He was never your basic sycophant....

More
  • December 14, 2020

The grievances continue as Trump imagines offences that only reinforce how much he was thought of as a danger to democracy. “We will find that hundreds of thousands of ballots were illegally cast in your state and all over the country, by the way, more than enough to give us...

More
  • December 8, 2020

Barr Is Said to Be Weighing Whether to Leave Before Trump’s Term Ends Attorney General William P. Barr is considering stepping down before President Trump’s term ends next month, according to three people familiar with this thinking. One said Mr. Barr could announce his departure before the end of the...

More
  • December 7, 2020

This morning on Fox News, Donald Trump’s fourth and final Mouth of Sauron, Kayleigh McEnany, appeared to acknowledge the inconvenient (for all those in the non-sane community) reality that Joe Biden is president-elect. Dead-ender Kayleigh McEnany yells at GA Gov. Kemp on Fox News: "You have the power to call in...

More
  • December 6, 2020

Biden has enough electors. Now all Trump has to do besides trying to compel GOP governors to overturn their elections is bribe some “faithless electors”. …the hidden mechanics of electing a U.S. president have drawn new scrutiny this year as President Donald Trump continues to deny Biden’s victory and pursues...

More
  • December 6, 2020
/ 2016 / 2016 Election / 2020 / 2020election / 46 / Abuse / Access / Administration / alone / America / Americans / Arizona / Assault / Atlanta / Ballot / Ballots / Barr / biden / birth / Boom / California / Campaign / Candidate / caught / Challenge / Change / China / CHIP / Choice / Cities / Citizens / Citizenship / CNN / Collusion / Comey / Common Sense / Confirmation / Constitution / Corrupt / Corruption / counted / Counties / Court / Courts / Criminals / Culture / damn / Dead / Democracy / Democrat / Democrats / Detroit / Difference / Disabled / Dominion / Donald / Donald Trump / DonaldTrump / Donations / Dumb / durham / effort / Election / Election2020 / Elections / Eligibility / Enforcement / Evidence / Exercise / expansion / Facebook / Facts / FAIR / Faith / Fake / faulty / Federal / Fight / Flags / Flood / Florida / Floyd / foreign / Fraud / friends / Future / General / Georgia / give / God / Government / Governor / GSA / Happy / Health / Hearings / Hell / History / Hoax / Honesty / Honor / Hope / Horror / House / iceberg / IDEA / Impeachment / Information / Integrity / Intelligence / Investigation / Investigations / jail / Joe / Judge / Judges / Justice / kemp / Law / Leaders / Leaks / Legal / legislatures / Lies / Local / Loeffler / Loser / Losing / Mail / McCabe / Media / MeidasTouch / Message / Michigan / Military / Milwaukee / Minnesota / Money / Mueller / Nancy / Nevada / new york / p / Pandemic / Party / Pennsylvania / person / Philadelphia / Politifact / Poll / Polls / Power / Precedent / Presidency / President / Presidential / Press / Primary / Propaganda / Race / Raffensperger / Rally / Rant / REAL / Reality / Recount / Refuse / Representatives / Republican / Republicans / Respect / Response / Rock / Rubio / Russia / Russian / Santa / Scam / Science / Security / Senate / siege / Space / Speaker / Speech / Spying / State / State House / Stop / Stupid / subpoenas / Tax / Testimony / Texas / TheHill / Time / Transcript / Transparency / Trump / Trust / Twitter / unknown / Video / Virus / Vote / Voter / Voter ID / Voters / Voting / Washington / WashingtonPost / Wisconsin / Witness / witnesses / Workers / World

A loser’s victory rally, what a message. In his Valdosta, Georgia speech on Saturday Trump will essentially repeat his 46 minute Facebook rant from Wednesday with a few local references and additional stupid ad libs. Save that hour for more productive activities that don’t involve super-spreading. They’re “not dumb in Georgia” but...

More
  • December 3, 2020

RW logic at work: They’re so angry at GA Governor Kemp that they might urge a GOP voter boycott of the Senate Runoff in January or even write in Trump’s name. You go, nutters. Georgia has already certified the election results so their objective got a bit screwed up. There will be...

More
  • November 21, 2020

We spend a lot of energy on this blog blasting Republican officials for cowardice, for lack of character, for putting party over country. It is only fair, then, to acknowledge the occasional Republican who actually cares about his responsibilities, Ben Raffensperger, a Republican, is the Secretary of State for Georgia....

More
  • November 16, 2020

Discovery and disinformation are ahead as RWNJs are looking for reasons to overturn the election, but are perhaps more about grifting. The reality remains that Trump tried to manipulate processing of ballots by installing a crony in USPS, among other things yet to be determined. Attempts to manipulate the system...

More
  • November 9, 2020

In 2018, Brian Kemp, then Georgia Secretary of State and in charge of elections, used that office to help get himself elected governor by playing all kinds of voter suppression games. The GOP expanded that suppression nationwide in 2020, including restricting the time for processing mail-in ballots and when they...

More
  • November 2, 2020
/ 2018 / 2020 / 2020election / 46 / Access / Advice / Alabama / AltRight / America / AmyConeyBarrett / anti-trump / Atlanta / Barrett / Bible / biden / Blue / BlueWave / Border / Business / Campaign / Campaigns / Cancer / Candidate / CEO / Change / China / collins / Confirmation / Congressional / Conservative / Conservatives / Conversation / CoronaVirus / Corruption / Court / Courtesy / COVID / Covid-19 / Crisis / DavidPerdue / Debate / Democrat / Democrats / Depression / Diabetes / Disease / Dog / Donald / Donald Trump / DonaldTrump / Donate / Donation / DougCollins / Dreams / Economic / Election / Elections / FAIR / Favorability / Federal / Federalist / Fight / Financial / focus / Ga / GA-Sen / Gardner / General / Georgia / God / GOP / Government / Governor / Graham / Happy / Harris / Health / Health Care / Hearing / Helping / History / Hollywood / House / incident / Insurance / Joe / Judges / Justice / kemp / Legal / LGBTQ / Liberal / Local / Loeffler / McConnell / mcsally / Media / new york / News / Obamacare / October / opening / PAC / Pandemic / Party / Police / policies / Poll / Polling / Polls / President / Presidential / Protest / Public / Race / Racist / Rally / Reelection / Reform / Registration / Reopening / Republican / Republicans / Response / Retirement / Runoff / Senate / Senators / Seniors / Speech / spread / State / Strategy / supporters / Threat / Time / Trump / Tweet / Twitter / Values / Vice President / Virus / Vote / Voter / Voters / Voting / Voting Rights / War / Warnock / Washington / Women / World

Some very good news today out of Georgia courtesy of PPP’s latest poll: PPP’s newest Georgia poll finds Jon Ossoff right on the cusp of avoiding a runoff in his race against David Perdue. Ossoff is at 47% to 44% for Perdue with Libertarian Shane Hazel at 3%. Ossoff’s 3...

More
  • October 29, 2020

That is some disgustingly shameless pandering: x RIP to the more than 30 million innocent babies that have been murdered during the decades that Ruth Bader Ginsburg defended pro-abortion laws. With @realDonaldTrump nominating a replacement that values human life, generations of unborn children have a chance to live.— Doug Collins...

More
  • September 20, 2020

So many contradictions, so little time, as non-socially distanced followers are kept away from Trump by a thin white line. x What about everyone else? https://t.co/XExDwnbqOO — Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) September 14, 2020 x Notice the big empty space on the right? That's where @realDonaldTrump “works” the ropeline. The...

More
  • September 15, 2020

Some good news today out of Georgia courtesy of PPP’s latest poll: PPP’s newest Georgia poll continues to find a toss up for President in the state. Joe Biden leads Donald Trump 47-46, thanks to a 26 point advantage with independents at 56-30. The numbers exemplify the generational change occurring...

More
  • August 31, 2020

So U.S. Senator Martha McSally (R. AZ) was busted doing this: x YouTube Video Sen. Martha McSally has a new campaign ad featuring a cancer survivor who talks about how her “path collided” with McSally, whom she describes as a champion for protecting those with pre-existing medical conditions. The emotional...

More
  • August 27, 2020

More news out of Georgia today. First, the main Senate Race: Georgia Senate GE:David Perdue (R-inc) 44% (+3)Jon Ossoff (D) 41%@surveyusa/@11AliveNews, LV, 8/6-8https://t.co/4Je6G768GC #GAsen — Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) August 11, 2020 Here are some points on this race: * Among voters who strongly disapprove of GA Governor Brian Kemp’s response...

More
  • August 11, 2020

I am so sick of stupid.  I am sick of parents putting their kids in danger right down to being canaries in a coal mine.  The people who believe the orange headed nutcase who spreads as much poison to ignorance as possible are dying from his poison kool aid. Magically...

More
  • August 10, 2020

Huffington Post has a piece out about how U.S. Senate candidate, Matt Lieberman (D. GA), self published a book he wrote in 2018 called “Lucius” which is about an old man who believes he owned a slave for all for most of his adult life and how the slave could...

More
  • August 7, 2020

Ok, so far U.S. Senator Martha McSally (R. AZ) is guilty of doing this: Sen. Martha McSally has a new campaign ad featuring a cancer survivor who talks about how her “path collided” with McSally, whom she describes as a champion for protecting those with pre-existing medical conditions. The emotional...

More
  • August 3, 2020

A newly released CBS/YouGov poll shows Joe Biden leading Donald Trump 48% to 44% in North Carolina and by 46% to 45% in Georgia. cbsnews_20200802_GA_1 Further good news is Cal Cunningham is leading Republican incumbent Thom Tillis in the crucial North Carolina Senate race by 48% to 39%.  Democrat Jon Ossof...

More
  • August 2, 2020

Received this e-mail from former presidential candidate, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D. NY), in support of Rev. Raphael Warnock (D. GA) & Jon Ossoff’s (D. GA) U.S. Senate campaigns: Something incredible is happening in Georgia. This year, BOTH of the state’s Republican-held U.S. Senate seats are up for election—and it’s...

More
  • July 27, 2020

So U.S. Senator Martha McSally (R. AZ) was busted doing this: x YouTube Video Sen. Martha McSally has a new campaign ad featuring a cancer survivor who talks about how her “path collided” with McSally, whom she describes as a champion for protecting those with pre-existing medical conditions. The emotional...

More
  • July 25, 2020

Fox News reporter Chris Wallace followed in his father’s footsteps yesterday, accountability framed by hard questions; or were they? Wallace, the host of Fox News Sunday, did what every other journalist since 2015 should have done with the President, in essence, make him prove it. Obviously, Mr. Trump granted the...

More
  • July 20, 2020

Joe Anderson at Slate Magazine has a great piece where he trashes Republicans like Kevin McCarthy, Brian Kemp and the Cato Institute for praising Rep. John Lewis (D. GA) as a hero while constantly blocking his legacy on voting rights. But Anderson really singles out the biggest obstructionist to Lewis’...

More
  • July 19, 2020

Received Slate Magazine’s weekly e-mail letter, The Surge, today. Every few weeks they will change up their battleground state rankings for the 2020 Election. Below are the seven states that are tipping towards Joe Biden and deserve the most attention: 1. Texas There has been some recent discourse about whether...

More
  • July 17, 2020
/ 2016 / 2016 Election / 2020 / 2020election / Abbott / Administration / Agriculture / Albany / alone / America / Answers / AOC / Atlanta / Ballot / Ballots / Bernie / Bernie Sanders / biden / BrianTylerCohen / Business / businesses / California / Campaign / Canada / carter / caught / Challenge / Change / Chao / Children / China / Cities / Citizens / Citizenship / Climate / CNN / College / collins / Cooperation / correction / Corruption / Court / COVID / Covid-19 / Crazy / Cut / dangerous / Dead / Deaths / Decision / Democrat / Democrats / Difference / Economy / Election / Election2020 / Energy / Environment / expansion / Fail / FAIR / Fake / Families / Family / Farmers / Federal / FEMA / Ferguson / focus / Fraud / friends / Funding / Future / General / Georgia / give / GOP / Government / Governor / Governors / Gratitude / greatness / Happy / Health / Hearing / Heat / Hell / Help / Helping / History / Honor / Hope / House / Housing / Hurricanes / Ideas / Income / Infrastructure / Inspiration / karen / kemp / Kids / King / Leadership / Lies / Lobbyists / Local / Loeffler / Love / Mail / Mandates / mask / Media / Medical / members / Men / Mexico / Money / Monuments / Moving / MSNBC / NAFTA / New Jersey / new york / News / Obama / Oil / Opinion / p / Paris / person / petty / Plants / Power / President / Pride / problem / Public / reading / Reform / Representatives / Republican / Republicans / Rich / Rules / safe / Safety / sanders / SAT / School / Senate / Senators / Service / Shame / Speech / State / Stop / Teamsters / Technology / Texas / Timeline / Trade / Transportation / Travel / Trouble / Trump / Twitter / UPS / Veteran / Veto / Vice President / Video / Virus / Vote / Voter / Voters / VP / War / Washington / Water / White House / WhiteHouse / Wife / Women / Workers / World

Trump went to another COVID “hotspot” and gave an infrastructure speech because it's that week again. CNN and MSNBC had the good taste not to broadcast it. Trump wore no mask, in violation of Atlanta policy. Strange how only GOP governors void local mask mandates, not coincidentally they have higher...

More
  • July 16, 2020

Rick Wilson is correct that “Everything Trump touches dies,” but Trump has little helpers — call them Trump Mini-Mees — who assist him in dealing out death to Americans with COVID-19.  And those Trump Mini-Mees are commonly referred to as “Republican Governors.”  They really are a rouges gallery, and it is truly...

More
  • July 11, 2020

From The New York Times: As Representative Doug Collins went booth to booth at a recent Republican jamboree in northeast Georgia’s Rabun County, he was a hero, not an insurgent. No one knocked him for splitting the party with his bid against the state’s junior senator, Kelly Loeffler, who is...

More
  • July 9, 2020

Not exactly the headline sitting Senators should see from The Atlanta-Journal Constitution: U.S. Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler have avoided criticizing President Donald Trump even after his posts on social media were called out for spreading racist messages. The most recent example came on Sunday when the president shared...

More
  • June 30, 2020

Received an e-mail update from Slate Magazine’s The Surge and they have released the top seven states that are now the most competitive for Joe Biden to reach electoral victory. Here they are: 1. Arizona The GOP is getting so desperate that it might voluntarily spend time there in August....

More
  • June 5, 2020

Seems the Media attention is all on Brian Kemp of Georgia and his reopening experiment with with the lives of his fellow Georgians during a viral pandemic.  And DeSantis gets the same level of scrunity because…well….It’s Florida.  Meanwhile, AL, MS, and SC have increasing numbers of coronavirus infections since their own grand...

More
  • May 30, 2020

Vanity Fair has a great piece about the all the political turmoil the good state of Georgia is facing. Governor Brian Kemp (R. GA) has royally fumbled reopening the state during the coronavirus pandemic and U.S. Senator Kelly Loeffler (R. GA) has been tarnished by scandals over her insider trading....

More
  • May 28, 2020

Wow: New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) CEO Jeff Sprecher made a $1 million donation to a super PAC supporting Trump’s reelection, just as his wife, Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., was facing serious insider trading allegations. Federal Election Commission records reveal that Sprecher gave his largest political contribution ever to America First Action...

More
  • May 21, 2020

I certainly don’t disagree with her: Senate candidate Teresa Tomlinson had a pointed message for national Democrats: Don’t relegate the former two-term Columbus mayor to afterthought status in the June 9 race to challenge Republican Sen. David Perdue. In a weekend memo, Tomlinson’s campaign urged party leaders not to “squander”...

More
  • May 20, 2020

Here’s the latest news out of Georgia: 🚨GEORGIA POLL🚨 A new poll from a GOP firm finds Georgia a true toss-up, both for President and for BOTH Senate races: Joe Biden – 47%Donald Trump – 46%#GASen David Perdue – 43%Jon Ossoff (not yet the nominee) – 41%https://t.co/uuJLnYoU3H pic.twitter.com/qFgpvzxNVf — TrumpsTaxes...

More
  • May 13, 2020