If you will indulge me a little more, I'd like to share another element of the conspiracy theories surrounding inauguration, because we're hearing a LOT about Trump becoming the *19th* president of the United States

(no threats of violence here)
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OK SO - this truly bizarre story says that in 1871, the US ceased to be a nation and instead became a corporation that belongs to the city of London (attn @SadiqKhan)
AND if you see an American flag with gold fringe, well that represents the corporation NOT the country 2/

This, they say, is why the rich are privileged and the average guy can't get ahead. They do not explain why the City of London would do this to us, their American Corporation, but this is how we get the victim narrative introduced 3/

SO, the next step is that "Biden, Harris, Pence, Pelosi, etc." must be arrested before Inauguration for Crimes. We do not know who else is included in "etc" because, I suspect, figuring that out would take too much research on the part of whomever came up with this nonsense 4/

Trump's final days in office are tailor-made to keep the spotlight on him at the expense of Biden, who is scheduled to take office at noon Wednesday, according to reports. Here’s a thread

Since the attack on the US Capitol, Trump has lost allies and faces a second impeachment trial. But until noon on Wednesday, he retains the vast powers of his office — and seems intent on using

🙏 Pardons 🙏
Trump is said to be planning a last-minute spree of pardons, which he can issue unilaterally and would spawn another chaotic news

The list was drawn up during a Sunday meeting between Trump, Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, and other aides, and will most likely be made public Monday or Tuesday, @washingtonpost

The list is not expected to include Trump, @cnn said, though the president is said to have considered pardoning himself and his

Viral #TrumpsNewArmy Video Is Liberals At Their Craziest And Scariest

"So if you were hoping that maybe liberals would chill out and get a little less crazy with Trump out of the White House, I am sorry to be the bearer of bad

@Fiorella_im @Oinklet2 @LincolnS1866 @Ihavenousefora1 @ChaseLa74813330 @ComandanteMDT @WSWS_Updates @Genevievewsws @jkishore Response to this thread:

Petty-bourgeois radicals like @Fiorella_im, @Ihavenousefora1 are awed by Trump. They think this fascist representative of finance capital is an "oppositional" figure, they transform the mob wearing "camp auschwitz" shirts into oppressed victims.

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@Oinklet2 @LincolnS1866 @Ihavenousefora1 @ChaseLa74813330 @ComandanteMDT @WSWS_Updates @Genevievewsws @jkishore .@Fiorella_im was awed by Bernie Sanders, campaigned for him, now is mightily impressed by the petty-bourgeois rabble in the Capitol. On behalf of which class did this fascist mob mobilize? Anti-socialist, anti-Lockdown, anti-any measure to protect workers from #covid.

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@Oinklet2 @LincolnS1866 @Ihavenousefora1 @ChaseLa74813330 @ComandanteMDT @WSWS_Updates @Genevievewsws @jkishore In this discussion, the anti-WSWS ppl have explicitly called for orienting to the fascists. @Ihavenousefora1 and @LincolnS1866 have both said socialists must win over the fascists in the mob in Washington. Betrays hostility to mobilizing working class as ind'y social force.

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@Oinklet2 @LincolnS1866 @Ihavenousefora1 @ChaseLa74813330 @ComandanteMDT @WSWS_Updates @Genevievewsws @jkishore They argue Trump is to be defended, that he has "free speech" right to launch a coup. It is the equivalent of saying "Hands off Hitler." And they claim to be offended when told they are aiding Trump.

As always, there's never any historic content...

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@Oinklet2 @LincolnS1866 @Ihavenousefora1 @ChaseLa74813330 @ComandanteMDT @WSWS_Updates @Genevievewsws @jkishore They should study history. Are they aware of the experience of the Red Referendum of 1931?

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General Flynn Special Counsel 302s

"FLYNN introduced TILLERSON to the Transition Team through ROBERT GATES so he took a personal interest in the matter."

The CPC, and their enabling press & surrogates, wish us to believe they haven't behaved like Trump's GOP. That they haven't copies Trump tactics, to try to get it to work in Canada as well.

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Here's a screenshot I made of a quote-tweet from just after the CPC leadership win, that indicates otherwise

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related to screenshot in tweet 2/

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during the day of the election, for CPC leader, I made a screenshot of CBC PnP's coverage - when the second ballot count had just been announced. Note that before the third ballot, Leslyn Lewis had the highest percentage of votes. You know who Dr Lewis' followers are? M*GA

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The CPC are also connected to the CCFR - NRA North

Big week for tech platforms & free speech!

- Twitter & FB banned Trump
- Apple & Google banned Parler
- Amazon kicked Parler off AWS
- Stripe stopped handling payments for Trump campaign

I just wrote a 4,000 word piece on these issues.

Here's a thread with my 10 takeaways...

1. Contrary to what many people have been claiming, no, Big Tech is not more powerful than the government.

The government can tax you, imprison you, and kill you. It can even nationalize private companies.

Tech companies can delete your free account.

2. Trump may be banned from Facebook and Twitter, but he’s still the president of the United States and he has not been silenced.

As @ModeledBehavior reminded us, only 22% of adults use Twitter. (And only 10% are daily active users).

Twitter is not real life.

3. Banning right-wing extremists or those who incite violence is not a slippery slope toward an Orwellian dystopia, and it’s certainly not a civil rights issue (contrary to what @willchamberlain might claim).

Every platform bans some users for speech issues, including Parler.

4. Repealing Section 230 would not solve any of these issues (and might make them worse).

People who claim "this is why we need to repeal 230" are lying to you (or severely misinformed).

Follow experts like @jkosseff & @mmasnick to learn what Section 230 actually says and does.

1) This is how we, all of humanity, move forward unite & focus on a beautiful empowered future together.
Data source is a Navy Super Soldier (Yes like Captain America), the same one who infiltrated ANTIFA & BLM posing as Trump supporter in the Capitol event on 1/6/21 & seized..

A rundown of Trump’s worst offenses:

Refused to release tax returns

Accepted emoluments in violation of the Constitution (we sued)

Hired daughter and son-in-law, costing lives

Put a “Muslim ban” in place, that mysteriously left out countries where Trump did business

So a lot of people have seen this flyer and the heard the media saying that Trump supporters are staging armed protests at every state capitol. I spent the last few days looking into this. Fake news! Thread:

1. In honor of Trump’s last full day in office, and what may end up being the big story of the day, here’s a quick #thread on the President’s pardon power — and answers to some of the questions about it that may come up today:

2. Article II, § 2 of the Constitution gives the President the power to “grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment.”

The idea was to provide the executive with a check on (perceived) excesses by the courts.

3. That’s why the pardon power is absolute; it wouldn’t be much of a check on the courts if they had the power to review every pardon. Instead, the remedy for abuses of the power, as Chief Justice — and former President — Taft wrote for #SCOTUS in 1925, is ... impeachment.

4. But which offenses can be pardoned? The widespread consensus is that the President may pardon any federal offense (this includes “local” crimes in federal territories like D.C.) by anyone *else* that has been committed (even if not charged) prior to the granting of the pardon.

5. This *includes* so-called “blanket” pardons, such as the one President Carter issued on his first full day in office for Vietnam-era draft

@Franklin_Graham, oh where do I start.

You have every right to share your frustration & outrage towards the impeachment. You still would’ve been wrong, I would’ve criticized you for downplaying our attack on the capitol, etc. But you went further, you compared Trump to Jesus.

Trumps loss, drove these pastors crazy and mad. For 4 years they lived a fantasy and tolerated Trumps immorality, corruption, hatred, racism, anti-life and much more his whole presidency. Scandal after scandal. They built their faith around Trump being called by God and when

Trump lost, it broke them. They didn’t know what they would tell their followers that they were wrong and God allowed this. Some sobered up, many live in denial but some like Franklin, sold their soul for power. They preach a false God and Jesus. They compared Trump to Jesus.

As dangerous Trump has become, Trump is Trump and we expected this. But Franklin, we didn’t. He went against everything he ever taught and preached. He wanted to become greater than his father and be America’s pastor. He wanted to be America’s pope. He was hungry for power.

Trumps loss broke him. I thought Franklin would’ve taken the high road and excepted the reality of Trump being a failure and needed to apologize for the incitement of an insurrection he started. Trump being impeached twice and a few rep. doing the right thing, drove him crazy.

Reading this piece from last summer by @normative, I realize that there is a parallel here between Qanon's "Storm" and the Cold War cults that sprang up at various times, but especially in the 70s and the 80s. Bear with me.

"The Storm" is a moment, like nuclear war, after which everything is different, even if there's bloodshed. It's purgative, restorative, resets all the social relationships, ends all traditional and normal social structures. It's shaking society like a huge Etch-A-Sketch.
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Why is this so attractive to so many broken people? Precisely because it *is* a reset. It's awful, but it's an awfulness that sets everything - including all social differences - back to zero. The high and mighty are smited, and the Common Folk live by their superior wits. /3

The Cold War pulp literature is what one scholar calls "Radioactive Rambos," men freed to be Warrior-Kings of the Wasteland, with all rules about sex and society out the window in the name of a greater good: America, Civilization, Killing

The sexual element of Cold War survival cultism was omnipresent. (Dr. Strangelove and "breeding prodigiously" in the mines, etc.)
But the other undertone is status. And how the low rise up and rule after the pinheads blow all that shit up.
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