The basis of this entire crisis is that Republicans are still so upset they got caught in massive amounts of criminal misconduct between 2016-2020 they will do and say anything to smear everyone else with the same accusations that led to their own tarnished reputations.

Michael Cohen, former RNC Fundraising Chair: convicted felon.

Elliot Broidy, former RNC Fundraising Chair: convicted felon.

Roger Stone, former RNC and Trump Advisor: convicted felon.

Paul Manafort, former Republican campaign manager: convicted felon.

Summary of Georgia Kraken Release...
Happy Thanksgiving, 🦃 🇺🇸!

COUNT I

DEFENDANTS VIOLATED THE ELECTIONS CLAUSE AND 42 U.S.C. § 1983

Some random reflections on yesterday:

As a mob stormed the U.S. Capitol--the legislative center of the world's superpower--I couldn't ignore the significance of the date.

For one, this was the traditional date of the Epiphany, when Christ was revealed to the nations with the coming of the Magi.

Here you have nobles traveling a long way to pay homage to a baby who was born with nothing, wrapped in rags and laid in a a feeding trough. Our God came in humility and peace.

It's also the Optional Memorial of St. André Bessette--a Quebecois, religious brother, barely five feet tall, a doorman too "lowly" to be a priest.

Thread:

My predictions for US politics in the next 4 years.

No unity, more division, economic crash, war against crypto, charges against Trump, President Harris, the new Republican Party, Don Jr running in 2024.

The division in America will grow. The tech sector, news media and social media will be split even more between left and right. New alternatives will rise and the anger between left and right will escalate.

Over 30% of all US dollars were created in 2020 to stabilize the markets and pay for the Covid pandemic. The US economy will crash and USD currency will see a steep decline in value.

As a result of economic turmoil and failing fiat currencies crypto will rise around the world and governments will make a stand against it to protect their supply of printed money. Crypto will succeed because the people will accept it as new money outside of government control.

Donald Trump will fight tax evasion charges amongst other legal battles as he will be punished by the left and parts of the right for years to come. They will do anything in their power to prevent a comeback of Donald Trump.

"Feel free to copy/paste, I did." ~ @lex31555

Here it is, abridged, and with pictures:

"I have listened to everyone else’s hatred, rhetoric and outright lies for the last four years, so now I am having my say.

With the @WhiteHouse as the backdrop, @POTUS about to take the stage at the #SaveAmericaMarch.

As 'God Bless the USA' plays, @POTUS now on stage.

"We have hundreds of thousands of people here," claims @realDonaldTrump. "These people are not going to take it any longer. Turn your cameras please."

"The media is the biggest problem we have," says @POTUS. "They rigged an election...Last night they didn't do a bad job either if you noticed."

#Election2020 being stolen by radical Democrats" and "the fake news media," claims @realDonaldTrump. "We will not take it any more...We will stop the steal."

Here I am going to try to address some confusion about why Allegheny County is not going to begin counting 30,000+ ballots until tomorrow. People are going bonkers about this, or castigating hard-working employees on no sleep, and it is wrong. (thread)

The ballots in question require special attention. The vast majority -- up to 29,000 -- involve a situation where a vendor sent the wrong ballots to voters, and had to reissue new ballots with the correct races. The challenge there is now voters have 2 ballots, one w/wrong races.

So you have to give those ballots special scrutiny to make sure that a) people don't vote twice, and b) if they just send in the old one, they don't vote in races they aren't eligible for. So you can't just scan them with the rest.

Other ballots in the pot include those that don't scan for whatever reason -- it's like when the ATM won't process the amount of the check you want to deposit, so you have to bring it into the bank office itself.

When ballots require special scrutiny, the county records the vote through a return board whose members are sworn in for that purpose. The board reviews the results tallied up by election workers after polls close, but also addresses provisional ballots, military ballots, etc.

Thread- History Explains.

Trump being taken out by the Senate is the same a Caesar, in that: The elite despise populist reforms because they dislike the lower classes.

They believe Trump has only ingratiated himself to the common people to take power from the Senate. 1/7

As with Caesar the Senate are removing him in order to protect their institutions.

If folks knew anything about Roman history, this take down signaled the end of the empire as a Republic.

Years of civil war following Caesar’s death resulted in... 2/7

...resulted in a senate that granted Octavian full control. He became the first Augustus.

A God-King.

The very thing Caesar was assassinated to prevent.

Jesus came during this time of God-Kings. They also wanted to kill Him.

3/7

Mark 10:45 “I did not come to be served, but to serve.” -Jesus.

Jesus was seen as ingratiating Himself to the common people by healing & forgiving them. His ministry was said by the religious to be that of Beelzebub (Lord of the flies). 4/7

They had to be careful about grabbing Jesus in public, because those filthy common people flocked to Him.

The people were supposed to revere the institution of religion. Something had to be done to restore things...

The Sanhedrin was a religious Senate. 5/7

Protesters have breached the Capitol. They’re outside the Senate chamber

This is happening

Police officers are holding them steps away from the Senate chamber, which is locked. Senators are inside. I see a few confederate flags.

Some sort of gas has been set off. I’m not sure by whom. Police seem to be trying to deescalate and talk to them.

“If we don’t get justice, this will never stop,” one protester yells

I count about 10 protesters by the Ohio Clock

For those nationally talking about Marjorie Taylor Green, allow me to point something out:

This is supremely clever propaganda. A former PLA senior colonel, Zhou Bo, writes for the once balanced SCMP (what a fall!) about the "inevitable decline of the US" and wonders if it will be peaceful.

"inevitabile decline",
a) the "inevitability" itself is removed from the central focus, that from any challenge or question.
and
b) the old question of whether China's rise (again considered inevitable) will be itself be peaceful is completely ignored.
Interestingly, however,

he also states that "China’s rise so far has been peaceful" - only "so far", mind.
Let's ignore for a moment China's actions against the Filipinos in the South China Sea, its provoking the Japanese SDF in the East China Sea or its initiating a major confrontation along the

disputed boundary with India in 2020. Zhou is signalling that if the US isn't going to be peaceful, don't expect China to be either.
"the Pentagon’s unabated military interventions after the Cold War have reduced the US’ national strength – a point few seem to disagree with now"

No definition provided for "national strength". Just a bald assertion. Accept it, swallow it - as Zhou rushes quickly to the next point
"when a democracy is in decline, it may become vitriolic and violent" - forget that authoritarian states are at all times vitriolic and violent

1/Listen up, Patriots. This is not the time for the faint of heart. Stop the hand wringing. You disrespect our President but, more importantly, all the young men who have fought and died for us. They did not face the enemy with a heart filled with fear.

President-elect Biden’s Thanksgiving address was an important moment in the rhetorical and moral life of the nation. The remarks themselves were well-constructed, graceful and serious of purpose – an act of responsible governance even before taking the oath. 1/

The president-elect’s speech also contrasted starkly with a president on a descending path of cynicism, destructiveness, desperation and self-delusion. We always knew it could come to this: A direct attack on the functioning and legitimacy of American democracy. 2/

The coup has already occurred in Trump’s mind. Can there be any doubt he would keep power by overturning a legitimate election? Can there be any question he would snuff out the democratic voice of the nation if he could? He is incompetent. But can we doubt his intention? 3/

It is the interpretive key to Trump: He is anti-American. He has no respect for the country’s institutions or values. He is ignorant of the nation’s story, dismissive of its conventions and unmoved by its romance. 4/

Trump sees politics the way a Machiavellian would in any country – as the pursuit of power, not the stewardship of certain truths. 5/

@POTUS CinC It Is Your Legal & Constitutional Duty
To IMMEDIATELY Use Executive Office Of POTUS (EOP)
& CinC Power To STOPTheForeignAndDomestic #WAROnUSA Communist Color Revolution #2020ElectionCoup6 & Attempted Overthrow Of USGov,USPeople & #RESTOREUSRuleOfLaw
#PROTECTSaveUSA

1/ Moderate Republicans are the most important people in the world right now. More comments on the #ElectoralCollegelRiot from a political sociologist.

2/ Right now, we have a severe problem: as long as you can gather up a critical number of primary voters, you can do some very horrible things, like incite a riot that gets 2 police officers killed.

3/ So what can be done? Part of the solution is relatively easy: criminal charges. We need a bright line. Free speech is ok, riots should be met with prison sentences every time.

4/ But part of the solution is much harder. Getting moderate Republican politicians and voters to punish people. They have more power to fix the situation than any other group right now.

5/ We've seen some honorable exceptions, like Corker and Schwarzenegger, and that is promising. But we've seen a suprising level of silence from the groups that are important moderate parts of the GOP coalition.

I guess it is true: Democracy does die in darkness!
Thank you @SenTedCruz & @Jim_Jordan for standing by #WTP & @realDonaldTrump
As for other @GOP, mainly @LindseyGrahamSC , you should resign your posts bc GOP is dead & useless. You all are treasonous traitors who betrayed #WTP

If our government was truly for #WTP, @VP & @SpeakerPelosi would not of held a certification over night when most voters are sleeping. They would of open mindedly listened to electors who objected to their state certifications instead of waving it off like they didn't exist

Instead as a Republic our Democracy was stolen in the dead of night.
You have to ask yourself, if our government is so "transparent" why would they wait to finalize votes and electors when most the nation is sleeping? Why would they want to hide?

Why would the so called "duely" fraudantly elected @JoeBiden push for $2000 stimulus checks, yet Congress would reject it from @realDonaldTrump , who wanted #WTP, small businesses and unemployed, taken care of?

Why would our government be so against setting up an election commission to verify there was no fraud during the election? What are they so scared of finding out? That they actually manipulated an election to screw America?

Lots of stuff happened on Capitol Hill yesterday.

All sorts of reflexivity and fertile fallacies.

And, if you haven't figured it out yet, you are only allowed to believe one version of the story and are allowed to only have one response.

Just like in late May.

(2) Any "takes" that were outside of what the established majority had prescribed would instantly brand you a racist, a bigot, a white supremacist.

And you were hedged, deleted, and banned if you thought for yourself.

Just like in March.

Voters: each voter is responsible for our choice. In 2016 we were attacked by Russia, who interfered with our election. Russia started interfering as far back as 2012 and they focused on conservatives so they could place a president who would help their agenda. 1/

Denying it happened is silly. Every one of our intel agencies including the Senate has agreed we were overwhelmingly attacked by Russia. No, they didn’t change votes, but they changed MINDS. Their aim was to create chaos, make us distrust our government, and they wanted...2/

...division so we would have a civil war. The Kremlin wanted Trump as president. He was the man for them to manipulate.

SO it is urgent we realize that this insurrection which was incited by Trump fits right into one of Russia’s Active Measures

We have a choice. We live in a democracy. We are protected in this democracy. We are free to speak, to worship, to protest to get peaceful redress (remedy for problems) and in authoritarian countries, such freedoms don’t exist. Trump is a criminal who wants to...4/

...overthrow this government. He has been taking illegal steps and is trying to throw out millions of legal votes. He used his power, our tax money and his status to file and he lost over 60 lawsuits trying to prove election fraud. He did not prove fraud. The election is...

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