Obama's homestretch itinerary: On the campaign trail and inside Trump's head
For nearly four years, the former president refrained from attacking his successor. As he took to the trail on Biden's behalf in the 2020 race's closing days, the gloves came

What a LIE. He, they, didn't refrain from anything! Perhaps you missed the attempt to frame him for colluding with Russia to steal an election?

1 / Who won the debate? Nobody: there was no debate. Kamala Harris would have won a debate if there was one. She is a trained litigator and masters the art of argumentation.

Why wasn't there any debate? Not between presidential candidates or VPs?

2 / Who knows. I suppose if one of the campaign managers insisted on rules the GOP side wouldn't have agreed and would proceed into yet another bout of conspiratory whining. Since it's all about perception and the perception of the average American is informed by...

3 / ... the intellectual capacity of a housefly, I assume this is what you get.

However, as someone who presided over more round-tables and presentations than I can count, let me tell you how it is done.

4 / The moderator has a fixed time for the whole thing to happen. Suppose I have two hours for the session. I give each presenter from 12-15 minutes to deliver their presentation and I have 3 pieces of paper that I show them: "10", "5" and "2" (to go).

5 / When the timer zeroes, I take the mic from the presenter whether he was done or not (yes, the ability of sticking to the allotted time is learned). I can either have presenters follow each other and open for discussion in the end or open for Q&A after each presenter.

Russians are masters of disinformation.

Don’t fall for their lies on social media


“The goal is to manipulate and divide humans because it sells. “We just provide a space for people to connect” is the sanctimonious response.

What rubbish.”

“They have created an addictive ecosystem that uses persuasive technology to catch, hook and exploit

“Russians’ mastery in this arena flows from their deep understanding and comprehensive formulations of information warfare, technology, active measures & human psychology. No other nation can muster the resources & skills Russia can with potentially game-altering effectiveness.”

“Today, we are experiencing disinformation campaigns to create alternative realities. These forces combine to erode the very foundation of our open society and its democratic traditions by promoting a polarized world.”

(1/21) The Republican Party is an organized gang of sociopaths.

(2/21) Trump doesn’t care how many people in Omaha are stuck for hours in the freezing cold, over 3 miles from the nearest road or parking lot, after he’s left his rally, putting some in the hospital. And he clearly doesn’t care how many people die of Covid.

(3/21) One of the defining characteristics of a sociopath is that they view themselves as the only “real“ humans on the planet, and everybody else is basically a prop in the amazing story of their lives.

(4/21) Other people, they think, don’t feel emotions or pain or anything else with the intensity that they do. They believe they’re the only ones who matter, because they’re the only ones who truly exist.

(5/21) The Republican Party, starting in 1980, has brought that sociopathic worldview to politics, and made it a cornerstone of policy as well as a criteria for elective office.

THE POKER AND POLITICS REVIEW OF "FALL OF THE CABAL" It's time for the redpilling to begin! #fallofthecabal #QAnon #Bartcop #ShirleyManson #PatriotHQ

A thread.

.@andymstone, the ex-Democratic operative who said Facebook is "reducing circulation" on our Hunter Files reporting, said that step is being taken pending fact-checking.

It was a bizarre standard, seemingly not applied to countless anti-Trump stories that collapsed.

It's now been nearly two weeks: Has the "fact-checking" process been completed? Have our stories been allowed to recirculate?

Because in the interval, neither Joe nor Hunter Biden has disputed the authenticity of the e-mails or the ownership of the hard drive.

In the interval, the director of national intelligence has ruled out that this story was Russian disinformation.

In the interval, the FBI and Justice Department have also ruled out Russian disinformation.

In the interval, a former business partner of Hunter and Jim Biden's (a Democratic-donating naval officer) has come forward, on the record, to confirm the authenticity of another key e-mail thread we exposed.

Already, this story has far more evidentiary and on-the-record corroboration than, say, the Dossier reporting or that blooper of a report in Buzzfeed (remember, @benyt?) on Trump suborning perjury, which the Mueller team demolished within 12 hours.

@eyejosh I started a Tweet went to a second tweet and it all disappeared
So try again... We have a an excellent option to end this Govt and perhaps the whole Parliament

It revolves around my beef that Vote Leave Broke the Law in the Referendum - 2

2/ The Electoral Commission investigated Vote Leave after a Complaint - they needed 3 x attempt before finding that Vote Leave had formed a company BeLeave with the specific intent to have extra spending of £700,000 in the last days of the run up to the Vote 3/

3/ Electoral Commission found Vote Leave had Broken Electoral Law which was their authority and fined V_L max Fine . E-C also found further "more serious offences" and as the Report states these were referred to Met Police for investigation 4/

4/ Take the Breaking Electoral Law = crime, as a group they agreed/took part in / Aided and Abetted the crime --

"an agreement between two or more persons to commit a crime or to accomplish a legal purpose through illegal action"

Criminal Conspiracy - Electoral Law -- 5/

5/ The "Serious Offences" referred to the Met Police were ignored - 6 months -- then Met {Police sat on for 12 months - Peers X Party forced Met Police to pass the E-C Files of evidence of Serious Offences to the Crown Prosecutions -

Files so serious that will be the DPP. 6/

"There were long periods in the Trump admin where we had no Sec of Defense. We only had 'acting' officials to dodge oversight. Esper stepped down saying he won't be Trump's 'yes-man'. Esper's not a good guy, so you have to think -- what *wouldn't* he do?"

"Trump is surrounded by Iran war-mongers including rapture fiend Mike Pompeo, who is planning to meet with Netanyahu. Netanyahu is an indicted PM who Israelis have been protesting for twenty weeks. Trump and Netanyahu are both imperiled." -- @gaslitnation

"I'm worried about war in Iran. I'm also worried about arms sales, and if Trump and his cohort are selling them, where they're going. Trump has a long history with illegal arms traders and is tied to the world's most dangerous mobsters." -- @gaslitnation

"Trump has a tremendous amount of debt. While in office, he and Kushner have made illicit foreign deals to pay off that debt. There are no limits to what they will do now. Never forget that this is the mafia." -- @gaslitnation

"Another big concern regarding Trump's new military obsession is what @leahmcelrath calls 'annihilatory rage'. As a narcissistic sociopath, Trump will not be able to handle losing and will lash out in violent, frightening ways." -- @gaslitnation

Thread for Sudan watchers summarizing the peace deal between Sudan’s transitional civil/military government and Sudan Revolutionary Front, whiwas signed in Juba yesterday. There's no official English translation yet.

Thread: Some thoughts as we go into the re-election of Trump. About 20% of the country is hard-core leftist. These people would love to see America become a communist dictatorship, and they’re silly enough to think it will benefit them.

But that leaves 80% of the country that is NOT hard core leftist. Of that 80%, another 10% is hard core Democrat. They’re going to vote for Biden no matter what we find out about his corruption, because they’re willing to sacrifice the country for their progressive vision.

That leaves 70% of the country that isn’t irredeemable. Of that 70%, 20% will normally vote Democrat, because, well, their fathers did or because the media has them convinced that GOP is evil (and Dems are either not or less evil) or just because. But they can be swayed.

And a lot of swaying has been going on. Between the riots, and the anti-American posturing of Dem politicians, $2 trillion “health” plans, banning oil production, and other craziness, a LOT of swaying has been going on. Gays, blacks, Hispanics, all have been migrating to Trump.

Mind you, some of them still won’t be swayed. They’ll either reluctantly pull the lever for Biden or they’ll stay home. We’re seeing some of that staying home factor in the voting numbers coming in from various states. The rest will vote for Trump.

Our Politics, Our Polity.

In truth there are no true political parties in Nigeria. What we have are ideologically non specific political platforms available to the rich and heavily influential persons to contest elections.

#Thread

A political party is defined as an organised group of people who have the same ideology, or who otherwise have the same political positions on pertinent issues, and who field candidates for elections...

...in attempt to get them elected and thereby implement the party's agenda as unequivocally stated in its official and universal manifesto.

In truth, presently, none of the prominent parties in Nigeria qualifies to be so called as per the above definition.

It is therefore not a surprise that the various anomalies being exhibited by both PDP & APC in the present imbroglio going on in Edo politics.

In an organised party no national chairman will behave as Adam's Oshiomhole has done. Also a party faithful and political protege of a political leader will not conduct his affairs as Gov Godwin Obaseki has done.

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Maybe next time man! I'm up on a truck trail. I'm ready for weather. Haha that's why I came out
Concise explanation: FOR NON-Q FOLLOWERS: 10 Days of Darkness We are now about to go into a period of time where the Internet may be shut down for up to no longer than

This is a quite disgraceful and shameful update from the @barcouncil. Not *one word* on the government's decision - pushed through Parliament days after it was announced - to strip - without reservation - cardinal democratic and fundamental

Not so much as a whisper about the fact that the government has, by secondary legislation imposed under an Act that was before never envisaged to give such widespread powers:

- Removed wholesale the right to protest - something that even this government has said, in representations to *Zimbabwe* should not be done in response to this very virus;

- Banned all communal worship, despite its chief advisers admitting in evidence that there was no empirical evidence about the risk of infection;

- Continued to restrict the rights to family life, including by preventing the right to access to the 'home' for those considered to live in a different household, one give specific protection by the ECHR: Buckley v United Kingdom (1996) 23 EHRR 101 at [63];

1. Phony Joe Biden.
Joe Biden is truly an ambulance chaser.  He had nothing to do with the vaccine that is about to be made available to the public, he had nothing to do with the manufacturing process that is already underway,

2. and he had nothing to do with the distribution process that is set in place, all of which were superbly instituted by President Trump and his team.

3. So, there he is, at a podium, reading from a teleprompter, telling us how he will follow the science, how he will distribute the vaccine, etc.,

4. now that Pfizer announced today that its vaccine is ready to go very, very soon (obviously, Pfizer chose to hold back its announcement until after the election).

5. This is the kind of bullshit we are going to hear from this clown (to quote him), who did absolutely nothing and has done absolutely nothing.

My update on what I know.

I have lots of phone calls & emails & texts & will give it to you straight & with a couple of early thoughts.

Have coffee not gin & follow if interested. 1/

The presidential is confusing, but a scenario many anticipated (including both campaigns)— if not the pollsters exactly— although that verdict isn’t entirely even set. 2/

Let me start with some certainties.

1) If every vote counted equally, this would be a Biden-Harris landslide or very close.
2) Every vote isn’t counted equally & everyone knew that.
3) More people than ever voted for the other guy than you. Record turnout for both. 3/

A large disappointment is that many hoped for a significant repudiation of Trump & his indifference to human life, human suffering, his corruption, and goal of getting rid of the ACA.

No matter the final total it will be hard to make that claim. 4/

In the next few days, the vote will be added up in Georgia, North Carolina, Nevada, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. Arizona is also not universally called, but looks like Biden.

Expectations are... 5/

Here's the big takeaway from the 2020 election. All the trends I've been expecting have been solidified and reinforced. A total and growing distrust in once revered institutions, especially media and pompous always wrong blue checks.

A feeling that faux "elites," oligarchs and the national security state are constantly lying and manipulating the public for ends that go against the public interest. Also more of an understanding you can't fundamentally change the system via voting for president.

Sanders, Trump supporters and non-voters will all increasingly feel this way in the coming years under a Biden/Harris administration. Both sides that lean populist, even if superficially, will now discount change via voting during these circuses.

This opens up the 2021-2025 period to outcomes that were previously incomprehensible. There's simply no trust or faith in anything, justifiably. The worst case scenario for cohesion would be Biden stepping aside and Harris being installed and this is not a zero chance event.

What we can expect is further macro decay on the geopolitical front as the empire continues to rot. Internal rot will continue domestically because the national security state oligarchy remains in charge. Hunger Games economy continues to accelerate.