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?

Does anybody want to know how the Darkness to Light Theme came along?

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/

Trump came to my beloved Omaha. Omaha is a purple city. Trump bussed in a ton of peeps who waited in unseasonably cold weather for him to arrive. After he was done speaking, he left the peeps in the cold FOR HOURS without busses.

Hypothermic people without masks everywhere.

OPD stuck with the mess. We are knee deep in COVID here. Many people had to be taken to the hospital for treatment because of hypothermia.

How do we calculate the toll for this idiocy? This event may turn out to be a huge miscalculation on his part one week from the election.

Trump buses people in and then abandons them at an airport in freezing weather before flying off to another super spreader event.

The event at TAC air is on the opposite side of where the parking is. It took hours to clean up Trump’s mess during a pandemic on a freezing night.

Last night in Omaha is a perfect example of who Trump is and the way that he governs. He just keeps finding new lows. How many of those people that ended up going to the hospital last night either became infected or caused infections on their way to and from the hospital?

I hope the good people of Omaha see who @RepDonBacon and Trump are and rebuke them up when they vote. If what happened last night in Omaha is a tipping point, @KaraEastman and @JoeBiden should have a good night on 11/3/20.

Dear Senators
Jacqui Lambie
Senator Rex Patrick,
I am writing to ask that you both vote against the legislation to extend the Indue card trials to any further sites and to end those currently on foot.I outline my reasons in the body of my letter and ask that you give my words

2. your serious consideration.
The Liberal and National parties have an ideological obsession with paternalistically controlling the lives of our First nations peoples and the unemployed. Demonizing both groups by constantly referring to their alcohol and drug abuse

3., gambling addiction and supposed high incidence of domestic/family violence. Other vulnerable groups have already been added to this list, those in receipt of a disability support pension (DSP) and students on Youth Allowance who also apparently need to have their income

4. controlled by Indue.
Without having any conclusive evidence that quarantining 80% of an individual’s social welfare payment to the Indue debit card prevents the purchase of alcohol or participation in gambling the Morrison government wants to continue the so called

5. "Indue card trials" and extend them to other sites experiencing social disadvantage.
More troublingly they also wish to extend the use of the Indue card to other social security recipients such as Aged Pensioners. There are only two groups who will benefit from

I keep going back to the same position.

How can @Mike_Pence be expected to count either;

a) electors produced in elections that publicly operated in conflict with state legislated and US election laws (constitutions); or

b) count 2 slates of electors for the same state?

Thread-
What do the Dems need to do on a policy front?
cc @speakerpelosi, @joebiden, @senschumer

1. Do or Do not. There is no try. - Yoda

For starters they need to get shit done. No more talking. Make people's lives better immediately.

Some claim there's no difference
1/

between R's and D's. And for some people, it's kinda true. Dems TRY and make the average person's life better and R's stop them, but the net effect is - no difference.

So, for starters Dems must actually do some good things: $2,000 stimulus checks, vaccine deployment,

2/

student loan forgiveness, health care expansion, more $ for education, LGBT protections, environmental reforms etc...

But HOW you might ask?

2. Think like the Turtle.

Dems get all caught up in process and policy and procedure. They think every legislative change needs 3
3/

months of hearing and testimony. Don't get me wrong. That is a good way of coming up with fair and effective public policy. But, it's time to get shit done fast.

McConnell has lobbyists write bills at 3 am and moves them through committee by noon. He can push dozens of

4/

judicial nominees through in an afternoon. Why? Cause he knows it's about just delivering for his constituents. Dems worry about losing marginal seats in the next election...

5/

I suspect Repubs are only pantomiming because they know it won’t work & Biden will be sworn in

Like kids playing with the stove, eyeballing Mom the whole time, knowing she’ll stop them

If it worked, they’d have to be responsible for the results of their choices. Can’t have that

Republicans have spent decades successfully blaming Democrats for the bad results of their policies & putting forward none of their own beyond tax cuts.

If they pulled off a coup they would have to stand by it & every fruit of that poisoned tree.

They literally don’t know how.

A coup ends the whole idea of an opposing party. It leaves Republicans in full control

Even with their full time propaganda network, they can’t pretend jettisoning the whole-ass Constitution doesn’t mean they’re in charge.

They haven’t had to stand by a choice since Eisenhower

If there was any chance at all of the Sedition Caucus pulling this coup off, they would never do it.

Their grift, their prestige, their safety, their rhetoric all depend on a functioning system not stomped into chaos by civil war against the majority they would disenfranchise.

Any given Republican would rather eat their own face on live TV than make a public decision & be held responsible for its consequences

That’s why McConnell is their savior. He blocks everything so they never even have to vote, their names are attached to no actual choices, ever.

"We will never give up, we will never concede," says President Trump at the rally to overturn the results.

"I hope Mike is gonna do the right thing, I hope so. Because if Mike Pence does the right thing, we win the election," says Trump, even though this is false.

"All Vice President Pence has to do is send it back to the states to recertify...and we become president, and you are the happiest people," says Trump, spreading disinformation and deluding his followers.

"They want Rudy Giuliani back in New York," says the president.

Maybe he's referring to the Southern District of New York?

"And Mike Pence is gonna have to come through for us. And if he doesn't, that will be a sad day for our country, because you're sworn to uphold our Constitution," says the president, revving the bus under which he has thrown his vice president.

Anthony Weiner's laptop.
John Podesta's laptop.
Hunter Biden's laptop.

All conveniently lost or hidden away.

All with Pedophilia / Crimes Against Children.

But sure, try to convince me @LLinWood is a nutjob while I laugh at your wilful

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THREAD

Lin Wood posted on Parler last night that Trump flew to the National Defense Command Center near Abilene, TX.

https://t.co/6lJSwWQlsb

THE HAPPENING - A TIMELINE

2020 Election Timeline of Events

(credit to timeline anon on /pol/)

1. Thread: Making a New Political Alignment Work
 
There has been much speculation, in light of recent events in Perak, that Pakatan Harapan could forge some kind of cooperation with UMNO and Barisan Nasional.
 
Anything taking place in Perak will have national repercussions

2. A development of this kind will naturally be a major, if not earth-shaking event in Malaysian politics.
 
As a KEADILAN MP, I firmly believe that PH is the best platform to achieve a progressive, equitable Malaysia

3. Any new alignment must have the interest of the rakyat at heart—this is non-negotiable.
 
However, it must also be recognised that political realignments are nothing new in Malaysia

4. After the May 13 1969 tragedy, the National Consultative Council was created by Tun Abdul Razak, in part to restore socio-political as well as economic normalcy for Malaysia

5. Except DAP, all the other main Opposition parties took part in the NCC – PAS, the People’s Progressive Party and Gerakan. DAP was protesting the detention of its Secretary General Lim Kit Siang.

Less than half of Albertans vote UCP. There are those who could have voted, but didn't. And those who split up the vote between various other parties. But when it comes right down to it, Kenney did not have an actual 50%+ majority. 1/ #ableg

And there are few UCP supporters now who agree with absolutely everything the UCP does. There are health care workers who have been shocked by the attacks on them. There are education workers who have been shocked by the attacks on them. 2/

There are parents who are not impressed with how school is happening with COVID. There are ranchers who are alarmed about coal mines destroying their pasturelands and water supply. There are people who are on AISH, or who care about people on AISH, who are not pleased. 3/

There are people who feel Kenney has chosen economy over people's health. There are those who think Kenney doesn't go far enough right, and want Alberta to separate and join the US. And there are way more Albertans who really do not want that to happen. 4/

There are people who feel Kenney is responsible for deaths, who feel Kenney has sat on federal funds and when he releases any of them, claims total credit. There are people who don't like the way Kenney has treated the LGBTQ community,... 5/

01/11/2021 10:57 AM EST
Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State
Today, the United States is imposing sanctions on seven individuals and four entities that are part of a Russia-linked foreign influence network associated with Andrii Derkach, who was designated on September 10, 2020

1/10. The claim that Trump won the election is a Big Lie.

2/10. A Big Lie changes reality. To believe it, people must disbelieve their senses, distrust their fellow citizens, and live in a world of faith.

3/10. A Big Lie demands conspiracy thinking, since all who doubt it are seen as traitors.

4/10. A Big Lie undoes a society, since it divides citizens into believers and unbelievers.

5/10. A Big Lie destroys democracy, since people who are convinced that nothing is true but the utterances of their leader ignore voting and its results.