Categories Politics
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They didn\u2019t follow due process. They should all resign...
— Andrew Masters (@AndrewM87769226) January 14, 2021
the Military, starting with the Joints Chiefs on down are is walking a fine line in watching this take place...some might say they are doing their jobs...I'm not convinced that we have to take the Nation to the precipice because layers need for f'ing evidence.
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These people - and I use the term loosely - are a disgrace to this Nation and the American People.
USDoJ, FBI, CIA, NSA, DNI - ALL KNEW this was happening...
248 Years of the finest Democratic Republic in History.
Now only 7 days...to the waterfall's edge.
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Ever Wonder what Romulus Augustulus felt like in the last days of the Roman Empire?
When the people tolerate BULLSHIT as accepted truth ignoring common sense and FACTS to the contrary, what comes next is not going to be pretty.
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If the military KNOWS what it going on and shipping ARMED National Guardsmen to the front lines in Washington - that means the hire-ups KNOW TOO...that would be collusion, Misprision of Felony, Misprision of Treason...not good traits for Military officers.
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Harvard\u2019s Institute of Politics has removed @RepStefanik from its Senior Advisory Committee.
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) January 12, 2021
In a letter to other members of the committee, Dean of the Faculty of the Kennedy School Doug Elmendorf writes...
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This is Third World tactics.
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) January 6, 2021
Pay overtime, get better help, work late, demand better.
This is why millions of voters distrust the system. https://t.co/cRzBhp9Mrh
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Brad Raffensperger is imploding after his phone call was leaked.
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) January 4, 2021
People are now seeing he isn\u2019t doing his job. https://t.co/Gl1PrhPXNe
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Why hasn\u2019t the media insisted on knowing the details about the ballots under the table?
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) January 3, 2021
At the very least, the law was violated by kicking observers out before the suitcases were unloaded. https://t.co/JuLLasMdCR
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Fact: Clark County officials threw out a County Commissioners\u2019 race (158k votes) because they didn\u2019t trust the process.
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) January 3, 2021
Then when the Trump campaign filed suit to throw out the whole ballot (not just one race) they flipped their decision and certified the race. @MajorCBS
Fantastic analysis of today\u2019s \u2066@CDU\u2069 leadership election and Germany\u2019s September federal election by \u2066@JeremyCliffe\u2069. https://t.co/xOuB4FpTXu
— Stewart McDonald MP (@StewartMcDonald) January 16, 2021
First up is Armin Laschet, the continuity candidate. Key messages: US example of dangers of polarisation; CDU can't take "Merkel voters" for granted; change requires experience, trust and teamwork rather than just big ideas; namecheck for his more-popular running mate Jens Spahn.
Verdict: not a bad speech tbh, nicely organised around theme of trust and teamwork that marked his father's work as a miner; the warning about the dangers of polarisation captured Laschet's own strengths and the risk of electing Merz
Next up is Friedrich Merz, the right-wing veteran. Climate change, digitisation, ideas blah-blah [aka I'm not a blast from the past]; don't fear the future; "consensus and compromise" require more contest; CDU must return to the "real centre"; no left-wing majority in Germany.
Verdict: weak, weak, weak. No organising theme, no coherence, just buzzwords over substance. And coming from Merz, the (genuinely valid) case for more robust political debate in Germany just comes across as cynical and reactionary.
2/I had seen on social media before I arrived that Trump trains were happening locally and I was curious to see if he had gained meaningful ground (You know by now that Hillary won there in 2016 by 33 and 41 percentage points respectively.) ex:
This is the RGV where my wife Debbie (@debber66) grew up. it\u2019s the bluest part of Texas and mostly Hispanic. She never thought she would see the day! #Maga2020 #RGV https://t.co/ziPTmgjhWB
— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) November 3, 2020
3/I also wanted to see what it was like, in a red state allegedly turning purple, to be in a blue region that may have been moving in the opposite direction.
4/Aside from Twitter, it was hard to find coverage of the Trump trains (which, according to locals, had been going on every weekend for at least a month, with hundreds involved) or of growing local enthusiasm for Trump.
5/Late morning, I spoke to @MorganGrahamGOP, the first Latina head of the Cameron County Republicans, who expected modest but meaningful gains. “I don’t think he’s going to break 40%, but mid-high 30s. That doesn’t seem like a lot to folks,” she said, but in the RGV, it was.
2) Quelques éléments en plus de la nouvelle chronique dans @Lesjoursfr pour vous donner envie de vous abonner... Vous y apprendrez pourquoi #Pence ne peut donner aujourd'hui la victoire à #Trump lors du décompte au Congrès mais peu importe au
If Vice President @Mike_Pence comes through for us, we will win the Presidency. Many States want to decertify the mistake they made in certifying incorrect & even fraudulent numbers in a process NOT approved by their State Legislatures (which it must be). Mike can send it back!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2021
3)...comme le dévoile au grand jour l'entretien téléphonique #Trump/#Raffensperger, il ne s'agit plus de contester factuellement le résultat d'1 élection en justice selon les règles de droit mais d'obtenir son renversement par tous les moyens imaginables...fussent-ils imaginaires
4) D'ailleurs, comme l'avait prédit #Raffensperger au président #Trump, un tribunal fédéral en #Géorgie a rejeté hier sa demande de "décertification" des grands électeurs par le pouvoir judiciaire...Enième défaite
5) Et on est frappé en ce matin du 6 janvier, date habituelle de la formalité rituelle au Congrès, de relever après 2 mois d'1 contestation forcenée par #Trump des signaux d'affaiblissement des normes de consensus en #démocratie US...
...Some of the Extremely Online Left in the US has deluded itself into thinking that the far right insurgency is a bluecollar movement (a bit like how both Blue Labour centrists and the Trot/Stalinist left in the UK persuaded itself Brexit is a working class victory)...
(of course, we know now the 6 January rioters were CEOs, lawyers, cops and whitecollar GOP activists https://t.co/vNW2JLzrye HT @FFRAFAction )
This is one of the starkest and clearest misinformation paths I've seen lately. And I can't stress this enough, this path is VERY well-known among misinformation reporters & researchers.
It started with tweets from folks like Pam Bondi & Rudy Giuliani that Real Clear Politics had "rescinded" its call that PA went to Biden. That was picked up and repeated verbally in a YouTube video. Then the YouTube video was shared in private FB groups
The YouTube video! Is on a verified account! Running ADS! And it gained nearly 900,000 views in just 12 hours, largely because of shares on Facebook. YT says this doesn't violate its rules 🤯 https://t.co/04METfLeOq
MEANWHILE ON FACEBOOK—a CrowdTangle search shows most of this activity is in PRIVATE FB groups, beyond what researchers and journalists can see.
Only 2.5 percent of FB activity—likes, shares, comments—is visible on public FB. I truly am *losing my mind* https://t.co/04METfLeOq