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1/ Yesterday's indictment of Douglass Mackey was deeply satisfying in that a co conspirator that was identified in the indictment ; Microchip. This Alt Right troll targeted me, & many others in 2017

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2/ Microchip specifically targeted my account & others for mass reporting efforts by his followers (he offered $5000 per acct suspended by Twitter) and encouraged harassment & threats towards those accounts. Threats of violence were directed at me (it didn't intimidate me)
3/ Additionally in the Mackey indictment, Baked Alaska aka Tim Gionet, was also named . Gionet was recently arrested for his role in the assault on the Capitol building. Now, this indictment of Mackey would seem to be just the beginning, because these guys connect to everyone
4/ For starters Baked Alaska & Microchip connect to this guy, Charles "Chuck" Johnson. He's the redheaded guy , standing on the steps of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London with Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R) , about to meet Julian Assange. We'll get back to JAss later.........,
5/ Baked Alaska & Chuck C Johnson have also been linked to Roger Stone . Hey, there's Roger Stone at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London too. Presumably Roge got lost in London to end up at Assange's bolt hole...........,
6/ Here's Roger Stone with internet sh*tposter Cassandra Fairbanks. Our Cassandra is VERY good friends with both Microchip & Baked Alaska. That's a trifecta of people that Cassie knows, who have been named in Federal Indictments. Such a naughty girl.......,
7/ Hey, there's Cassandra Fairbanks, Roger Stone, Carter Page, and Jack Posobiec & his wife. Are we getting that these people are all from the same pond, & possibly committed crimes against the United States together?
8/ There's Jack Posobiec & his wife with Cassandra Fairbanks, with someone that looks very much like Ali Alexander. Oh dear. Ali, like Microchip & Baked Alaska, had a controversial online presence

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9/ Now, we need to go back to 2016 at the RNC Convention to see what Jack Posobiec was up to. He was running a group called Citizens for Trump. No surprise that Poso gets mixed up with Baked Alaska & Cernovich there, along with Milo & Roger Stone.....,
10/ Talking of Cernovich, there he is in the White House press room with Cassandra Fairbanks. At this point, Cassie is surrounded by more dirty douches than at a Sexual Health clinic. Let's not even mention her work for Russian State media
11/ Now the reason all these guys love Assange so much, is because Julian did Trump & his crew a solid during the 2016 US Election by dumping the contents of the DNC hack online just before the election, and then Wikileaks cherry picked or lied about its contents to help Trump
12/ And who did the DNC hack, and gave it to Wikileaks? Why Russian Military Intelligence, the GRU, according to the Mueller Report.
13/ No @JackPosobiec . What Mackey & all of you guys have been doing isn't political speech. Trump & the rest of you, lied, accepted stolen data from a foreign adversery, tried to intimidate people with online harrassment & political terrorism, & now the Feds are coming for you

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Good afternoon, followers of frivolous election litigation. There's a last-minute entry in the competition for dumbest pre-inauguration lawsuit - a totally loony effort to apparently leave the entire USA without a government.

We'll start with the complaint in a minute.

But first, I want to give you a quick explanation for why I'm going to keep talking about these cases even after the inauguration.

They're part of an ongoing effort - one that's not well-coordinated but is widespread - to discredit our fundamental system of government.

It's a direct descendent, in more ways than one, of birtherism. And here's the thing about birtherism. It might have been a joke to a lot of people, but it was extremely pernicious. It obviously validated the racist "not good enough to be President" crowd. But that wasn't all.

Don't get me wrong, that was bad enough. Validating racism helped put the kind of shitbird who would tweet this from an official government account into power. But it didn't stop


(Also, if you agree with Pompeo about multiculturalism - the legendary melting pot - not being what this country is all about, you need to stop following me now. And maybe go somewhere and think about your life choices and what made you such a tool.)
I told you they’d bring this up


I was wondering why that tweet had so many stupid replies. And now I see


Seriously, this was “the night before.” If you’re at the march where they’re changing “Jews will not replace us” and “Blood and soil,” you’re not a “very fine person.” Full stop.


There are 3 important moments in that transcript.

1.) When someone asked Trump about a statement *he had already made* about there being blame on “both sides,” he said the “fine people” line.


2. Trump does clarify! “I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and white nationalists — because they should be condemned totally “

Okay!

Then adds that there were “many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists.”

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The PWA's CSS is generated on-demand by a JS framework that manages styles and outputs "atomic CSS". The framework can enforce strict constraints and perform optimisations, which is why the CSS is so much smaller and safer. Style conflicts and unbounded CSS growth are avoided.