As @AndrewSparrow at the @guardian points out, Johnson led Vote Leave and then wrote the following in the Telegraph after the referendum result. Line by line analysis of the key part?: /1

"I cannot stress too much that Britain is part of Europe, and always will be."

Well, he can't change geography, but the centre of gravity in politics and economics in Europe is not in the UK, and the UK is relegated to the periphery with a very limited relationship to the EU. /2

"There will still be intense and intensifying European cooperation and partnership in a huge number of fields: the arts, the sciences, the universities, and on improving the environment."

No: no partnership and none will intensify. Env only because EU insistence on LPF? /3

"EU citizens living in this country will have their rights fully protected, and the same goes for British citizens living in the EU."

No: 'settled status' not the same for EU citizens and Windrush-type scandal expected. /4

"British people will still be able to go and work in the EU; to live; to travel; to study; to buy homes and to settle down."

No: free movement ('proudly') ended. Short visits only, visas for work, massive bureaucracy. Only Brits with a 2nd nationality keep the benefits. /5

What is happening on the floor of the United States of House of Representatives is tragic.

Tragic because it was preventable. Tragic because most of the Republicans in the House are themselves brainwashed into believing that this is all *just politics.*

1/

I take no joy in supporting impeachment against the President.

In fact, it pains my soul to know that the Commander in Chief launched an attack on his own people, on the People's House, on democracy.

It is tragic.

2/

Our checks and balances have failed.

Our institutions of justice have failed.

The only power that has not failed is the power of the American people. We voted and we won.

And that's why Trump attacked it.

3/

This is an attack on us as a people. It is an attack on those the autocrat cannot control. He has radicalized those who feel disenfranchised and he sent them into the Capitol as his pawns while he watched the attack with glee from afar.

4/

He was capable of doing this because he has not one or two or even three lieutenants in Congress--but over 150 of them.

Their loyalty to Trump--their thirst for power--their devotion to a political party--and, yes, their fear of exiting the cult--has ruined our country.

5/

/1 This is a chronicle of @RepTedBudd's twitter feed since the election. He tweeted more than 25 times about the lack of election integrity and continued to push a LIE of voter fraud in support of Trump's narrative the election was stolen. It's a long thread.

/2 However, Budd never once said anything about the exhaustive court cases that never found any fraud. Budd sent a letter to AG Barr to investigate. Barr saw no need to do so and saw no evidence of widespread fraud. Yet, Budd refused to even mention this fact.

/4 Why would you ask someone to look into something but refuse to acknowledge that they told you there's nothing to see? Because your agenda is to sow doubt in a free and fair election. The effects exploded on Jan 6th when the insurrectionists tried to stop the Electoral count.

/5 We must hold these men and women accountable. They are dangerous and now people are dead because of them.

/6 - On Nov 7th, Budd starts with there is nothing wrong with making sure all legal votes are counted. This post makes you think there were illegal votes cast.

Important Context:
What have you learned about HUMA?
What organization is HUMA?
Which US President is affiliated w/ HUMA?
Why is this relevant?
What year(s) did this occur?
Who funded on behalf this President?

🚨
It was QANON.
It was a CULT.
It was a PSYOP.

The insurrection last week was not just “political violence”, it was the result of a planned psychological operation.

It was an attack by a foreign power with the aid domestic terrorists. We must not forget.

THREAD
#RIPQ #TTP

So, let's recap:
1. Probably through cheating, we "elected" a grifter fool slimebag white supremacist four years ago.
2. He immediately started us down the road to fascism via the news station controlled by what was once the Republicans but now the Fascist Party.

3. They did both evil racist things, like starting concentration camps and ignoring natural disasters in places where there were ppl of color and working to remove health care from everyone because people of color might get healthcare too.

4. So both evil racist things and also inexplicably stupid things like gutting the Clean Air and Water Act, trying to destroy as much wildlife as possible and deciding destroying the entire planet wld be a neat idea.

5. The people fought back hard for the healthcare and the states where more non-fascists lived did their part by marching peacefully, calling their reps daily, and running for office. The busiest group among these were women of color.

6. Meanwhile, a lot of weird things happen, including events where troops died and Twitler 2.0 lied every single day while looking lustfully at his daughter (which will always be super gross--people voted for a man who openly said he was sexually attracted to his own child)

My MP @RobertLargan has made public his desire for his whole voting record to be recognised and not just, say, his votes on opposition day motions.

On Tuesday, he voted 9 times on amendments to the #TradeBill.

https://t.co/7fh5abYJTp

At his own request, let's take a look..

Amendment 1: To give parliament and the devolved nations a role in the scrutiny and approval of trade agreements.

Mr Largan voted against this.

11 Tory MPs rebelled against this removal of their own powers.

Mr Largan did

Amendment 2: to assess the human rights violations of countries with which we have or are contemplating forming trade agreements.

Mr Largan voted against this.

1 Tory MP rebelled in this vote. It was not Mr Largan.

Amendment 3: to consider the revocation of any trade agreement with a country that has committed genocide.

Mr Largan voted against this.

34 Tory MPs rebelled in this vote. Not Mr

Amendment 4: to protect the NHS and care organisations from control from outside the UK via trade agreements with other countries.

Mr Largan voted against this.

So did every other Tory MP.

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Hey trump supporters and apologists. Please read:

I'm sick of trying to convince people that humanity and decency is more important than their cult leader and their cowardly political party
You still support trump? Still making excuses?
Congrats.

You'd be making excuses for Jews disappearing off the streets of Poland and Germany. You'd be informing the SS of where your former neighbors were hiding with their families. 6 million deaths wouldn't faze you because your leader told you the Jews were taking away what was yours.

You'd be saddling up to fight to keep your slaves. Defending centuries of racism upon which this country was built. This is your place in history.
I'm not being mean. I'm telling you. This is who you've proven yourself to be and it's heartbreaking for the rest of us to watch.

We don't take pleasure from watching your moral decline. We mourn the loss of you. Or who we thought we knew.
This is who you are. You've proven it time and again. Nothing is too outrageous or egregious from your guy. You excuse every word and action by deflecting blame.

You were OUTRAGED when Black people protested police brutality and the murders of Black Americans by police.
How dare they kneel during the National Anthem? How dare they peacefully protest or cause damage in their own neighborhoods as an outlet for centuries of pain and rage?

🧵 For those who have been as interested as I am in the discussion about Congress using Section 3 of the 14th Amendment against Trump, this is a thread of scholarly commentary on the subject. Please feel free to add additional links.

Historian Eric Foner was among the first to suggest using it and he later wrote up his argument in the WaPo here:

Two legal scholars, Gerald Magliocca and Bruce Ackerman also argued that using section 3 may be more effective than impeachment:

In the @nytimes, @brianbeutler and @deepakguptalaw say it section 3 should be used as a compliment to impeachment.

Political scientist and professor of law Mark Graber makes the case that section 3 can be invoked by legislation passed after Trump leaves office, which would also "retroactively void any action taken by President Trump after January 6, 2021."

. @brianstelter You need to have a sharp focus on the culpability over the past many years of the mainstream media. @paulkrugman, @jayrosen Tom Mann & I were among many who warned years ago of the transformation of the GOP from a regular political party into an insurgent outlier

A handful of good journalists like @JohnJHarwood @jackiekcalmes @JillDLawrence and others reported it honestly, but way too many did not. Abnormal behavior was normalized long before Donald Trump emerged. Malign behavior was sidetracked by framing it as strategy. 2

The both sides and false equivalence frame, brilliantly described by @JamesFallows was the norm in journalism. The fear of being labeled as biased towards liberals was exploited by the right. The norm of reporting both sides ignored the more important norm of reporting the truth.

The bandwidth for scandal meant that things like Obama's tan suit got the same breathless treatment as Trump violating emoluments clauses for personal enrichment or child separation. Emails were DEFCON1 for Clinton and ignored entirely for Trump and family.

When actors like McConnell and McCarthy know that they can get away with violating norms and blowing up institutions, they are encouraged to do more. When Sunday talk shows give equal stature and credibility to enablers of wrong behavior to others, they add to deterioration. 5

So, deal or no-deal? I'm afraid it looks gloomy. Too many outstanding issues, a political context that is not conducive to compromise, and a tunnel leaking like mad. Quite possibly forming between them a vicious cycle. So, is this it? I suspect not... 1/n

Recall, this UK-EU negotiation is attempting to put in place an agreement unusually extensive (haulage, aviation, security, as well as trade) in a record timescale (9 months start to implementation) at a time of pandemic. That was always optimistic. 2/

A process driven EU against a naive yet overconfident UK in a short timeframe was also never going to be easy. In particular the UK's sole evident negotiating strategy, to say we'll walk away, is still in overdrive, making compromise harder. 3/

On the up side the UK has been inching slowly away from the purist notions of sovereignty which would prevent any deal towards a more realistic haggle over details, but possibly too late to resolve them, barring unexpected deep late concessions from either side. 4/

Geography isn't changing, and trading more with neighbours isn't either. Virtually all countries in the world have deals with their neighbours. It is unrealistic for the UK to be the sole developed country exception. Even if it takes a while. 5/

If Marjorie Taylor Greene was a Muslim, she would be in Guantanamo Bay and in

No U.S. citizens/women are held at that blight on the global conscience, but Greene is a reminder that while US has obsessively focused “War on Terror” on brown Muslim men outside/inside its borders, this white, blonde, Christian woman inside its Capitol is face of terror at home

Sisters of White Supremacy: Marjorie Taylor Greene and Katie Hopkins.

White, Blonde Female Face of Fascism.
(from a video filmed the day after the insurrection)

h/t @rerutledge

A 2017 study into right-wing populist voters in Europe found that women are increasingly drawn to right-wing populist parties and are often more radical than their male peers. The Sisterhood of White Supremacists on either side of the

The Sisterhood of White Supremacists on either side of the Atlantic have this in common: a virulent hatred of Islam, Muslims, and migrants.

The @HouseDemocrats have released the newest version of H.R. 1, the For The People Act of 2021. Here's a thread highlighting some especially exciting provisions on voting access. (You can read the bill for yourself here:

H.R. 1 is broken into 3 sections: voting, campaign finance, and ethics. This thread will focus on *just one part* of the voting section. Let's go.

H.R. 1 *requires* that states let people register to vote online. (Today, 9 states still don't have online registration laws on the books.)

H.R. 1 would mandate that states adopt "automatic voter registration." This doesn't immediately register everyone, to be clear—but it *does* use the info people provide at participating gov't agencies like the DMV to automatically register them to vote, unless they opt out.

H.R. 1 would mandate same-day registration for federal elections. No more having to register before a deadline. You could show up to vote on Election Day *or* early and register at your polling place before casting your ballot.

As President Trump railed against the election results from a stage near the White House, his loyalists were already gathering at the Capitol.

We reconstructed how that rally gave way to a violent mob that forced the evacuation of Congress.

Here’s what was happening before noon

— Near the White House, Trump addresses supporters he had summoned to Washington to stop the certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.
— Meanwhile, hundreds also assemble on the Capitol lawn, more than a mile away.

From 12:15 p.m to 12:50 p.m.

— During Trump’s speech, he tells the crowd to walk to the Capitol. “You have to show strength,” he says.
— Supporters leave for the Capitol even before the speech ends.
— Pipe bombs are found at the RNC and DNC headquarters.

From 12:53 p.m. - 1:03 p.m.

— Trump’s speech continues.
— A crowd at the Capitol overwhelms police and breaks through barricades.
— Police in riot gear arrive to help control the crowd.
— Inside, the proceedings to certify the Electoral College vote begin.

From 1:12 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.

— Trump’s speech ends.
— Outside the Capitol, the rioters’ clash with the police escalates.
— Inside the Senate, Ted Cruz argues that the Electoral College votes from Arizona should not be certified.

10 PATHWAYS TO VICTORY FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP AND WE THE PEOPLE

As defined by Mike Adams/ HealthRanger and expanded on by @OratorBlog

Situation Update, Dec. 22nd - TEN feasible pathways to a Trump VICTORY

https://t.co/on8yMF2PPX