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I was wrong. He left. I own it. Now I'll keep my word. I can't say that I regret it. It's appropriate.

The fact that I was wrong that Trump would engineer a way to stay in the WH, & potentially wrong about an opinion I never vocalized, doesn't change what I laid out all yr 1/


And that's this: Trump was a Trojan Horse. Trump herded & set up & sold out the Christians in this country who were too blinded by the cult of personality that he and his fake enemies engineered. He pretended to be fiscally conservative, then destroyed us with warp speed. 2/

He pretended to be pro 2 Am, as he encouraged red flag laws & bump stock bans. He pushed 5G, ignored chem trails, & intentionally & obviously sabotaged his own litigation re things like "DACA," he pretended like a wall he knew he could never build was the only way to stop 3/

illegal immigration, he pretended to want to stop child trafficking, & then prosecuted far less of those crimes than even Obama, he claimed to fight ISIS while moving troops just far enough back in Syria to allow Turkey to invade ... & free ISIS, & then assassinated the only 4/

guy who actually was fighting ISIS, he shut down the country for a wall he can't build bc 67% of the border is private property, but never over TRILLIONS of dollars in socialist pork or Planned Parenthood funding, he pretended to fight through tweets, rally comedy tours, & 5/
A joint session of Congress has begun the final steps of counting the Electoral College votes that will officially make Joe Biden the next president.

https://t.co/9YTss44fxL


Vice President Mike Pence said he concluded, after ā€œa careful study of the Constitution,ā€ that he doesnā€™tā€™ have the sole power to accept or reject electoral votes. Instead, he said, his role is


Outside the Capitol, where a joint session of Congress is meeting.


Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., delivered a stern warning to his congressional colleagues against attempting to overturn the 2020 election, saying democracy would enter a "death spiral" if Congress were to reject the counting of electoral votes.
BREAKING: 54% say Pres. Trump should be charged criminally with inciting a riot for having encouraged his supporters to march on the Capitol, new @ABC News/WaPo poll finds.

BREAKING: Pres. Trump will leave office with a 38% job approval rating in new @ABC News/WaPo poll; 60% of the public disapproves, matching his peak disapproval in August 2018.
https://t.co/jljkHh6pF0


JUST IN: 89% of Americans oppose the actions of those who stormed the Capitol, including 80% who are strongly opposed. Among Trump supporters, 76% are opposed, including 60% strongly opposed. https://t.co/jljkHh6pF0


BREAKING: Pres. Trumpā€™s career average approval rating is the lowest for any president in modern polling dating back to 1939. He is the first president in that time never to achieve majority approval at any point.Ā https://t.co/jljkHh6pF0


JUST IN: 56% in new @ABC News/WaPo poll favor removing Pres. Trump from office and barring him from holding elected office againā€”exceeding the 47% who supported his removal in his first impeachment last year.Ā https://t.co/jljkHh6pF0
Let's do a Friday afternoon check-in on what's going on in pro-Trump social media

One of the most dominant themes is paranoia. Anyone who talks about a rally, protest, march, or other action gets accused quickly of being part of the FBI/antifa/deep state 1/


That said, this is not quite right becauseā€¦ 2/


ā€¦the Virginia Citizens Defense League is organizing a caravan for Lobby Day on the 18th. Their event was armed last year (photos from 2020) and they explain how to show up armed this year, even though they don't have permits to hold an official event
https://t.co/AwqEVrsPwp 3/


That's not to say they are showing up to try to overturn the election, but still, it IS a conservative group holding an optionally-armed "bunch of people showing up in the same place but not calling it a rally event". FWIW, some think the Deep State is setting them up too 4/

Still, I'm not seeing any big organizing of events on open pro-Trump social media. Smaller groups may get together, but I don't see anything happening at scale among average MAGA supporters 5/
Insane! The @washingtonpost editorial board attacks @revolvingdoorDC research file on Jeffrey Zients for being fair enough to include the positive purpose of Zients in government (seeking efficiency) & ignoring and ignoring... https://t.co/FSktDrjT6p (1/x)

how we found out about Zients' purchase of a surprise medical billing operation. (btw, "long term holdings" wannabe Berkshire Hathaway funds like Cranemere engage in EXTENSIVE due diligence, they knew what they were doing).
https://t.co/9bXcWYhg0s (2/x)

How do you write about @revolvingdoorDC criticism of Zients without taking into account Zeints' leading role in NorthStar Anesthesia? (3/x)


Does @DaHalperin maybe have some thoughts about Zients, the predatory for profit Kaplan college empire, and the Washington Post???? https://t.co/u7UIKAZ2bF (4/x)

What did NorthStar -- that Zients buddies at the Post Editorial Board think is unimportant -- do? During Cranemere's due diligence AND post-purchase, they engaged in surprise medical billing. (5/x)
I want to echo Ibrahimā€™s welcome for this engagement with Syrians by @AnnaMcMorrin and @WayneDavid_MP.

At the same time I am overwhelmed with how far we are from where we need to be.

I have such a flood of thoughts, it is hard to know where to


One difficulty is having too much to say. Another is that so many of my thoughts are by now steeped in bitterness.

I think it is very important to say that Labourā€™s problems on Syria donā€™t begin and end with Jeremy Corbyn and his associates.

There is too much bitterness on Twitter, but I think I need to write a little on mine here, and how it colours my view.

This yearā€™s anniversary of the Srebrenica Massacre comes to mind. Labour leader Keir Starmer marked it here:

https://t.co/jaf27nIEuh

Inevitably some couldnā€™t help think of Corbynā€™s record of siding with mass murderers.

The month after came the anniversary of the Ghouta Massacre. I donā€™t believe Starmer mentioned it. I donā€™t think @lisanandy said anything about it either.