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Donāt know if itās significant, but it appears that Trump enthusiasm is high
P.S.-donāt block roads
Arizona
96 Miles....Yes, you read that correctly, 96 Miles in AZ! pic.twitter.com/QnePbLPgkG
— Red Viper 2.0 2020 (@redwins3_first) November 1, 2020
California
The Trump train here went on for miles and miles and miles on the 5. pic.twitter.com/2eqbYDpJJu
— Justin Hart (@justin_hart) November 1, 2020
Pennsylvania
Incredible. The one public appearance Joe Biden does this weekend is a speech in Pennsylvania that immediately turns into a massive Trump rally/car parade/GOTV event. pic.twitter.com/g2DwkxlYWt
— Joe Shikhman (@JoeShikhman) October 24, 2020
Israel?
Spotted in Jerusalem, the capital of Israel:
— Trump War Room - Text TRUMP to 88022 (@TrumpWarRoom) October 31, 2020
Massive motorcycle parade for President Trump!pic.twitter.com/Jp2PFtwJ3m
Virginia
#ElectionDay Heading to @CBSNews shoot + traffic #NorthernVirginia + caravan heading to 495 + participants said organized through FaceBook, emails. #Democracy2020 pic.twitter.com/KJOjEVuMIk
— Catherine Herridge (@CBS_Herridge) November 1, 2020
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Heās not the only one. Republicans everywhere are waving the unity banner. Letās not dwell in the past, they say. Sure, we called for a mob to kill Pence and encouraged people who built bombs to storm the Capitol, but itās time to move forward, letās forgive and forget asap.
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And I just want to say as your Internet Mom: Hey Kiddos, you're skipping some steps. Coming together WON'T happen, literally CAN NOT happen, until there is justice.
I\u2019ll say it again! https://t.co/zpdIfQkbcL
— LeVar Burton (@levarburton) January 7, 2021
We could try and skip the justice and just *pretend* we're sincere about coming together. Only, we tried that for about the last 50 years, and turns out, it doesn't work.
Pretending to come together benefits those in power, protects whiteness, and hurts everybody else.
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So before we wring our hands about togetherness, we need to tackle justice. Justice = appropriate consequences for those who hurt people, and for the people who were hurt.
Consequences for those involved in the attack on the Capitol may look different for each person.
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It doesn't get more self-discrediting for the GOP than the implicit suggestion that the most promising line of attack against Joe Biden, with a couple weeks left before Election Day, is to shine a spotlight on his son Hunter. pic.twitter.com/jZydlLxs7G
— Berny Belvedere (@bernybelvedere) October 16, 2020
this stuff is primarily of interest to me because of the legitimacy of moderation on a site that that is de facto critical infrastructure
we live in a clown world where a site like this is, due to the President and so many influential people posting on it, now critical infrastructure pic.twitter.com/tzORuW0rLI
— idgames://11790 (@Aelkus) October 17, 2020
but voters barely know it is going on at all, and the object-level thing the meta-level fight is occurring over is laughably weak. They're reduced to trying to make a show out of Biden's son. Ah yes, because Presidential candidates always have impeccably behaved relatives! (not)
They've thrown the Burisma thing at Biden over and over again for the better part of a year and it hasn't panned out. They're now down to this.
pretty impressive for Guiliani to step on his own dick this bad with this attempt at ratfucking pic.twitter.com/4XkPcNIjq7
— debdrens (@debdrens) October 16, 2020
if Twitter hadn't artificially extended the life of this story, it might have been on the cusp of burning out already. Because it's hilariously stupid
We may be why he delayed this testimony until after the election...
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe testifies on FBI Russia Investigation before @senjudiciary @JudiciaryDems - LIVE on C-SPAN3 https://t.co/unQUiEWLw7 pic.twitter.com/51jVADoaXA
— CSPAN (@cspan) November 10, 2020
Still, he's taken a very big step back now. The cliff risk was today; both sides were so close to the edge they could easily have gone over it. The fact @10DowningStreet didn't means Govt must genuinely believe there's now a landing zone that works, & which it can sell ENDS
— Mujtaba Rahman (@Mij_Europe) December 13, 2020
I find it most amusing that people invest so much value in public statements, briefings, tabloid headlines, the tweets of obscure backbenchers etc. Cherchez les fundamentals!
There is a deep vein of analytical pessimism in one particular direction, which, whether correct or not, is noteworthy. On the one hand, a firm belief in the fundamentals - gravity exists - but on the other hand those fundamentals are not meaningful to the final decision.
But gravity does exist! Whether one likes it or not. We do not have wings. Or feathers. And the realisation of the fundamentals will impact the political calculation (though timing differences may apply).
You donāt have to invest any particular optimism or see any virtue in the principal players to make this point.
-First, re the Electoral Slates for Trump: they are currently *uncertified*. We hope to get them retroactively certified.
authority to "throw out" an electoral slate and accept another.
— Larry Schweikart (@LarrySchweikart) December 17, 2020
I know our side is depressed & grasping at straws, but this ain't it.
-I sincerely hope you are helping us do this by organizing your followers to make phone calls to their Legislators, instead of complaining about the process. No time for that.
-Secondly, I will address, once again, the historic role of the @VP vis-Ć -vis 12A & ECA of 1887.
-Because of the ambiguity of 12A, its passive voice phrasing, I posit the āPresident of the Senateā has the exclusive constitutional authority to determine which ācertificatesā to āopenā and thus which electoral votes āto be countedā in the event competing slates arrive.
-Now, you are coming from the Electoral Count Act of 1887, which is a convoluted mess.
-You inferred the Trump electors are "illegitimateā.
-Well, the Act says only the votes āappointed in accordance with the laws of the Stateā may be "counted".
OBJECTION! LOL!š
-Trump loyal Rs shall argue the āexecutive certifiedā slates are illegitimate because of election irregularities from the contested states.
-But what if the Trump slates are not certified by 1/6? Then both will be thrown out.
Chinaās Elite Capture:
- Over 600 Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members at 19 branches of HSBC & Standard Chartered
- 123 CCP at Pfizer & AstraZeneca (coronavirus vaccines)
- Defence firms Airbus, Boeing & Rolls-Royce employed hundreds of
āIn the nine months to September, 14 Chinese nationals were charged over alleged spying offences and the Trump administration last week changed its visa rules so members of the Chinese Communist Party and their families can stay or get travel documents for only a month.ā
āLast week, John Ratcliffe, the US Director of National Security, warned that China posed the 'greatest threat to democracy and freedom' since the Second World War and was striving to dominate 'the planet economically, militarily and technologically'.ā
itās been 6 months since my 5 day hunger strike to highlight historyās most technologically sophisticated genocide in china (https://t.co/Vu8BVi2w4q)
yet still thereās not been a single mainstream UK newspaper frontpage on the Uyghur plight
never stop asking WHY?
Self-evident.
By @MichaelPSenger for @tabletmag