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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/
Donald Trump leaves the stage to YMCA, greeting and hugging his family after giving his final speech as US president https://t.co/AbQxlbyS9h pic.twitter.com/UWp4lkbNis
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) January 20, 2021
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/
https://t.co/9YTss44fxL
House Republicans stand up to object to Arizona's 11 electoral votes for Biden. Sen. Ted Cruz stands up as the Senate sponsor, drawing applause from his colleagues.
— Joey Garrison (@joeygarrison) January 6, 2021
Next, the Senate and House will break into separate sessions for up to two hours to debate the objection.
Vice President Mike Pence said he concluded, after āa careful study of the Constitution,ā that he doesnātā have the sole power to accept or reject electoral votes. Instead, he said, his role is
Pence in statement says it's lawmakers, not him, who determines the results of today's Electoral College proceedings.
— Nicholas Wu (@nicholaswu12) January 6, 2021
"it is the people's representatives who review the evidence and resolve disputes through a Democratic process." pic.twitter.com/p9N7SfAOHN
Outside the Capitol, where a joint session of Congress is meeting.
#Trump supporters trying to storm the @uscapitol as Congress is set to certify @JoeBiden's win.
— Philmonger (@phillipmbailey) January 6, 2021
Per @ElijahSchaffer: pic.twitter.com/vTzPxeZdG6
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: 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. Trumpās 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 againāexceeding the 47% who supported his removal in his first impeachment last year.Ā https://t.co/jljkHh6pF0
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/
...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 )
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)
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
Words turned into action. Labour leadership in the past would not even meet Syrians, let alone follow up on the meeting with a letter to Gov asking them to do more on Syria! Previous labour used to ask for less, muddy waters and spread disinformation on Syria. What a change!! https://t.co/iB8r7bCqUW
— Ibrahim Olabi (@IbrahimOlabi) December 4, 2020
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 Labourās problems on Syria donāt 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 yearās anniversary of the Srebrenica Massacre comes to mind. Labour leader Keir Starmer marked it here:
https://t.co/jaf27nIEuh
Inevitably some couldnāt help think of Corbynās record of siding with mass murderers.
The month after came the anniversary of the Ghouta Massacre. I donāt believe Starmer mentioned it. I donāt think @lisanandy said anything about it either.