1⃣WHY I WANT TO SERVE LAGOS EAST AS SENATOR

I am Tokunbo Abiru, former Group Managing Director of Polaris Bank and the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the December 5 Lagos East Senatorial by-election. #TokunboAbiru #dec052020 #LagosEast

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2⃣I SPENT ABOUT 29 YEARS OF MY CAREER LIFE IN THE BANKING SECTOR
By training, I am an economist and a chartered accountant. I put in about 32 years of work after my university education. I spent about 29 years of my career life in the banking sector. #TokunboAbiru

3⃣By the grace of God Almighty, I got to the peak of my chosen career. By 2013, I became an Executive Director in First Bank Plc. Thereafter, I had the privilege to be the regular-appointed Group Managing Director for Skye Bank Plc., #TokunboAbiru

4⃣during the turbulent times. I had the mandate to rescue it and save it from the total collapse that challenged the financial stability of the country.
In 2016, Skye Bank was one of those banks that are systemically important in the country. #TokunboAbiru

5⃣It had serious prudential ratio challenges. I headed the management team that was saddled with the restoration of the bank. By 2018, precisely by September 11, we had virtually reversed all the negative ratios, be it profitability ratio, #TokunboAbiru

Here's the overall view that I'm piecing together right now.

Venezuela is a linchpin.

You've got BLM, Bernie, and radical left adoration.
You've got Smartmatic and Dominion fingerprints everywhere.
Chavez and Maduro.
BLM involved in their elections.

You've got Global Citizen there, and here... and everywhere.
You've got Bill Gates involved with Smartmatic, ES&S, Dominion, etc.
You've got Microsoft's software Election Guard in every single machine.
Celebrities shilling for Smartmatic machines specifically & Global Citizen...

There's a common thread for all of this.

Plus, Maidengate started with a text from Supermajority that was co-founded by Black Lives Matter founder Alicia Garza.

They're all in on it.

Find a thread, start pulling.

This is a good one to dig your teeth into.

A THREAD
This week, there has been talk about the bush war and what those involved in it fought for. Even the suggestion that the war wasn't fought for particular leaders to be presidents. Of course everyone has a right to their opinion, no matter how misguided. Here is mine.

Even in the early stages of the war, two ideologies had emerged. The first was that the war was a means to personal gain. As it became clearer that we would win, there were some that started talking about which houses in Kololo they would take and lives they would live...

The second was that power is a means to an end. That we were fighting for things much bigger than ourselves; freedom from oppression, the just application of the law and a Uganda that works for everyone. For those who subscribed to the first, the second was simply a PR front...

Once in power, these differences in ideology were not immediately obvious. The good will of Ugandans and their willingness to give the new government the benefit of doubt meant that corruption and personalisation of government didn't get called out as much as they should have...

Slowly but surely, those who thought of power and personal wealth as an end in itself started consolidating it, maligning those who disagreed and using the public support for change to secure their personal future at the expense of the very people they claimed to work for...

*** THREAD ***

Don't fall for the Disinformation about Voter Fraud

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I think we can all agree that the Trump administration has taken extraordinary steps to delay the inevitable conclusion that Trump lost the elections, period, end of story.

Attempted legal action and a whole host of other parlor tricks are great media fodder.

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But, ultimately, Trump will not prevail.

He just clearly didn't win.

But I want to talk to you about the ongoing Russian intelligence op to convince Americans that there's widespread voter fraud.

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Voter fraud in America is rare. Not just a little rare. EXCEEDINGLY rare.

Earlier this year, MIT election expert Charles Stewart III completed a 20 year study on election fraud.

Not only is it exceedingly rare, it is also HIGHLY prosecuted, because federal law

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enforcement AS WELL AS the intelligence community monitor elections very closely.

To quote The Hill's article, "There have been just over 1,200 cases of vote fraud of all forms, resulting in 1,100 criminal convictions, over the past 20 years.

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Major leak 'exposes' members and 'lifts the lid' on the Chinese Communist Party

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Georgia early voting took a few days off over the holidays, like most everything else, but it was back near general election levels on Monday

As we've expected from the start, this creates a challenge for comparing where we stand now v. the general election.
Day 11-13 were fairly good days for the GOP in Oct.; they run farther behind without those days, but we have no reason to think that's for a meaningful reason

I'll offer two ways of trying to account for this. It's not perfect, but there are many circumstances in which it still permits useful analysis. 1) Remove those same days of in-person voting (not mail) from the advanced vote in October; 2) A direct day-to-day comparison

That first comparison--removing ipev from GE holiday-equiv. --will be represented with a dotted line, shown here.
This isn't perfect: one could imagine, for ex., that someone who would have voted on day 12 will now vote on day 18, boosting later tallies. But still useful context

With that in mind, it still seems Democrats continue to show a lot of strength. Yesterday, they continued to run well ahead of the general election, including excluding holiday equiv. days

Voters are worried about violence and safety at the polls.https://t.co/msp8h9ucjE busines up to date

Gary Kauffman says he does not scare easily. So when men waving President Donald Trump flags drive by his house in downtown Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, he stands on his front steps and waves a banner for Democrats Joe Biden and Kamala Harris

Results of elections over the last five years signal to Progressives that we cannot simply continue thinking in traditional ways, proposing the usual, conventional solutions & hoping the pendulum could shift in their favour.

We need to wake the fuck

As a result of growing socio-economic inequality; the acceleration of economic, social & technological changes; changes in the voter base of social democratic parties; as well as numerous other global trends, many liberal democracies are led by populist politicians.

What to do?

In the EU, roughly a quarter of likely voters vote for populist politicians, whose actions centre on fighting against some outside enemy, the rejection of political pluralism & the irreconcilable conflict between the “people” & the elites - all very reminiscent of 1930s Germany.

Based on a “radical” understanding & interpretation of democracy, populists seek to implement a form of govt that demands uncontrolled authority on the basis of a popular mandate which is used to systemically weaken the institutional guarantees meant to safeguard minorities.

Populists portray human rights as instruments to thwart certain majority positions & as “antidemocratic”: organisations that invoke these rights are labelled “agents of foreign powers”. We are witnessing a widespread & far-reaching retrenchment in the area of progressive values.

Decided to check out what was happening on parler regarding SCOTUS, their website is a horrific design mess, but it is interesting...

Searching the Parlor gutter for SCOTUS gold #2

This website makes me appreciate the beauty of Twitter, it's a hobgoblin of bad design that you have zero search options for!

Swimming the cesspool of Parler for SCOTUS takes #3

Seriously, this trash website will be dead in 2 years @RemindMe_OfThis

Mining the river for golden Parler SCOTUS takes #4

Apparently this theory of SCOTUS leaving the door open is quite popular (its entirely nonsense).

Also PARLER CENSORED ME!!! lmao

Frittering away my time in the tears of the right wing by finding Parler SCOTUS takes #5

Wanted to add at least on little troll into the mix! (they are all over)

Also, hashtags are literally 75% of the "parlays".

BREXIT DEAL- THREAD:

I shall vote for the agreement reached with the European Union. I shall do so not because it is perfect - far from it - but because it is the least worst of the options available. 1/24

To have ended the transition period with no deal at all would, I believe, have resulted in an economic stress and uncertainty that, on top of the damage caused to our economy by coronavirus, that would be quite simply unsustainable. 2/24

It appears to me, however, that we have spent the last four years and huge amounts of time, money and political capital reinventing the wheel. 3/24

The suggestion that we have “achieved a trade deal worth six hundred and fifty billion pounds “with the European Union has all the hallmarks of a “side- of- the-campaign- bus” slogan about it that is, to say the least, disingenuous. 4/24

What we are now presented with is an agreement that delivers most but not all of the trade arrangements that we previously enjoyed with the remaining twenty-seven countries of the European Union with strings attached and no further say in policy or regulation. 5/24

Continued thread 3
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“The chances that you would have 1,000 votes in a row would be something like 2 quadrillion-to-1 against.

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“The chances that you could ever see 123,000 votes in a row for the same person are – you could go pick a grain of sand on a beach and I could go pick a grain of sand on another beach and the chances that we picked the same grain is as close to you can get to zero.

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So, the point is that these three things line up: Bucket #1. The technical capabilities of the machines; Bucket #2. The lived experience of the people who went & voted in these districts &; Bucket #3. The statistical results – all dovetail together & tell this ironclad story

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“You’ve gotta prove ‘Could it happen?’ and ‘Did it happen?’ The question of ‘Could it happen?’ is addressed by Bucket #1, that the machines have this functionality. The question of ‘Did it happen?’ is proven by Buckets #2 and #3, the lived experience of the people who lived

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and voted in these precincts and the statistical outcomes all prove it did happen.

“So, together, all that information fits hand-in-glove, perfectly.”

Election Fraud, Insurrection Act, Martial Law, the Only Way: https://t.co/pazgpy9bbY

1. The military is the only way. Why not just invoke the Insurrection Act and take down these traitors? – because the people won't accept it. They must first see it for themselves.

2. Before Nov 3rd, most people still believed the elections were mostly fair and honest. Minor attempts at fraud existed, sure, but nothing like widespread national vote rigging. That fairytale has since been thoroughly and completely shattered these last several weeks.

2a. We all know there is corruption in D.C., but we also had to see the corruption at the state and local levels too. Even Republicans were in on it.

3. Evidence was collected and lawsuits were filed, only for us to run into yet another level of corruption: the courts. Here and there a normal judge appears, but they are almost always overruled by corrupted higher courts.

4. Another level of corruption: the mainstream media (MSM). The full on suppression and refusal to cover any of these lawsuits fairly and accurately to keep the info from the people is criminal. Even Fox News has thrown in.

Why is going to Washington DC the 6th of January bigger than many realize?

The answer is multi faceted like a precision cut gemstone.

Curious?

I was too. So I asked God. He's soooo good!

Wanna hear what he revealed?

Check this out.

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In defense of pollsters.https://t.co/9Lp6eEp8i0 information trending topic

Online media is ablaze with criticism—even denunciation—of the polling industry, with Trump having more success in the 2020 election than most pollsters predicted.