1) Not every column is vindicated by subsequent events but, unhappily, this one in @JNS_org from Monday was: Why the #Georgia Senate runoff hinges on the tribal culture war about @realDonaldTrump.

2) The GOP's loss of both #Georgia Senate runoffs was in part caused by changing demography & weak candidates. But it was also entirely avoidable. Instead of a referendum on #Warnock & #Ossoff, it was a referendum on #Trump.

3) Had the president & those who believe every word he says & every conspiracy theory floated by his acolytes who won't accept the reality that a majority of the nation rejected him, not spent the last two months re-litigating that loss, the Senate would not have been lost.

4) Trump visited GA only twice to campaign in that time & spent both ranting about the delusion that he won instead of trying to ensure that the GOP had the means to prevent a radical transformation of the country that would erase his legacy.

5) Yes, the Dems are hypocrites & there were irregularities & likely some fraud as is the case with every election. But the idea that magical Communist software or mass dumps of illegal votes decided the election was as much of a conspiracy theory as Russian collusion.

1 (Thread) Reminders of what the democrats said before the election to create what is happening today.

Trump is a dictator lol my a$$ 😂

Although we will end up with one

2/ Manufacturing a dictator: The media started in 2016 setting up the Nazi narrative

3/ Tila Tequila small group of people gained international attention because of this ridiculous media creation.

I am a marketer. There's no way I could get international media to pay attention to a small insignificant group of people without an agenda

4/ Then we have Russian interference and Facebook's help in stealing the election

5/ Which went on and on and on

They are storming DC!
Trump supporters just tore down some barriers at the Capitol in Washington, DC #StopTheSteal #WashingtonDC

THREAD: As the founding head of @TwitterGov, I have long been a vocal defender of @Twitter’s permissiveness of @realDonaldTrump’s otherwise-violations of Twitter Rules (1/11)

The “newsworthiness” exemption often held true. If the President was a madman or a fraud, or both, let the spotlight shine on it for the populace to see. Don’t have a private company shield the public gaze from the meltdown and pretend the emperor has clothes. (2/11)

The time for that sunlight has long passed. No one can claim ignorance to his delusion; the citizenry has already chosen whether to swill the toxic Kool Aid. A few more Tweets or less won’t affect that. (3/11)

The stronger argument was always that there was something exceptional about the presidency. That there are actions, when taken by the President, that must be held to a different standard than when taken by a private individual. (4/11)

An early example of this was a series of @realDonaldTrump Tweets threatening the North Korean regime early in his term. Violent threats such as these would normally violate the law and Twitter Rules. (5/11)

How Patriots Get Played:

1. @KelemenCari reposts an image from @brettlewis to her followers that she did not fact check. Similar to mainstream media. Just get it out there, fact check later.

Thread.

@hughhewitt has this to say about those of us who believe the president should be impeached.

"Whatever the impeachment chorus is, it isn’t principled, it isn’t concerned with justice and it isn’t concerned with the future."

Some thoughts

Hewitt writes that many impeachment proponents have “Trump Derangement Syndrome” and the claims to know what motivates them – and what doesn’t.

“Of concern for the country, well, concern for that part of the country they don’t inhabit, there is none.”

2/

On Thursday morning, The Dispatch published our first-ever editorial calling for the impeachment & removal of President Trump.

It's a principled case, driven by a desire for justice & w/concerns for the future (immediate and distant) at its core.

3/

People can disagree with our case. Some folks we respect surely do. We’ve lost some members over it – including of the Founding Lifetime variety at $1500 a pop.

We’d gladly publish the same editorial again today. It’s become more urgent – not less – that Trump is removed.

4/

Hewitt chose not to engage our arguments, opting instead to claim it’s all “a punitive mission based on cable talking heads ‘hot takes.’” He insists, w/o evidence, that to those who favor impeachment the views of Trump’s 74 million voters “do not matter.”

Well then.

5/

One year on: 9 things you need to know about the 2019 General Election

1. The Conservatives won a big majority… despite only increasing their vote share by 1.3% on 2017

2. Smaller parties got crushed – as usual. Nearly 900,000 votes for the Green Party across the UK equated to exactly one Green MP.

In contrast, it took just 25,000 or so votes to elect an SNP MP (thankfully, both parties back proportional representation!)

3. The ERS predicted with 100% accuracy the result in the majority (56%) of England’s seats – 300 of them – before polling day

For the 16 million-plus voters in these seats, it may have felt like there was barely an election happening at all

4. Around 14.5 million voters are unrepresented across the UK (they didn’t pick the one winner in each seat)

That’s a marked contrast to proportional representation, where we'd end one-party-takes-all results at last

@SidneyPowell1 @LLinWood #Rigged Everyone needs to #read the entire 270 pages of what #SidneySaturday exposed here. It's #Frightening & so well done.

decades of #ElectionRigging around the

Our votes have NEVER even been counted @realDonaldTrump

It's a miracle you won 2016, no wonder Hillary can't recover, the fix was in NOW in 2020, you blew the entire system plot because so many people voted for you

Every #American should be very worried, why? The people

That "won" never won, they were "placed" in. As I told people, it's so rigged that they sell their souls for their seats, & then they are "owned"

More than ever, we HAVE to fix this, the house was #stolen in 2018, they are after the #Senate

Everyone has to catch them in the act, and @JoeBiden needs to concede, he lost so much, it's laughable

Everyone is complicit, because they want the $$$$ they get for staying silent.

One of the most important parts for me (besides all of it, was this

the SOFTWARE operator picks the winner, it changes all of the votes via the software, paper ballots don't even matter pge 187

Honestly it's really your fault you were the ones who took an old man with a history of bullshit and put him as the head of your movements.. and then u acted surprised when he ran it into the groundd

@AnnCoulter @RichardBSpencer

The right wing populists from various movements all put trump as the head and the face of their movements.. and he proceeded to do nothing for them and actually made life worse for them by allowing censorship of them and doing nothing about it

@AnnCoulter

Those people were objectively worse off after Trump than before trump.. and it's not because of that "he can't do anything".. there was a lot he could do.. least of which would at least be bringing the problem to National attention.. which he didn't do until it affected him

But even then there was so much he could have done.. from executive orders to his control of the FCC and taking control of the FBI and other organizations.. but instead he seems totally disinterested in doing the job and alligator all of his responsibilities to Jared kushnerr

And that's what you get for hiring an old lazy man Boomer to be in charge of your movement.. he could have done a lot.. he we have done a lot.. he could have made censorship illegal.. he could have investigated the people you wanted investigated. instead he let Lindsay Graham in

NOW: Sen. Bob Ballinger is presenting his stand your ground bill in the Senate Judiciary Committee. This bill would end the duty to retreat. #arnews #arleg #arpx @KATVNews

Ballinger, present with an NRA representative, has introduced an amendment that cleans up the language he says. (The amendment passes)
Now he's presenting his bill w/ amendment to the committee. #arnews #arpx #arleg @KATVNews

Ballinger: In short, you're going to hear this is a license to kill - that isn't the way it is in California or Illinois or other jurisdictions. We have worked with AG's office, prosecutors, law enforcement... #arnews #arpx #arleg @KATVNews

NRA Rep: SB 24 does not encourage violence or give anyone a license to murder. This is a very narrow concept that simply protects victims of violent crime that choose to defend themselves before attempting to flee. #arnews #arpx #arleg @KATVNews

Sen. Stephanie Flowers: A convicted felon has the right to have a weapon at their dwelling and use it to defend themselves?
Ballinger: It's saying they don't have the duty to retreat, but you can still prosecute for felon in possession of a weapon #arpx #arnews @KATVNews

There needs to be a mass movement of political maturation. People are obviously encouraged to move at the pace which best suits them, but it is concerning, to say the least, that people closer to 40 are still impressed by political pageantry over policy.

Now what pace is that? Progress is all but stalled when you’re more agitated by the truth than the lies you’ve been led to believe and repeat about misleadership in this country.

Perhaps you aren’t interested or invested in an equitable society where the poor and working class represent themselves. But it truly should eat away at you that you’re fine being corralled into repression and subjugation by “your” government.

The emphasis we place on political education is not symbolic or even an attempt to rewrite history. It allows us to see what methods Black revolutionaries used, but also to see how the government subverted and destroyed their movements.

They saying is “history doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes”. Many people were exhibiting their first term Obama jubilation. What we know happened next is the justification for why those pipes in Flint were never fixed, why so many extrajudicial killings of Black people happened etc.

Hey @SenShelby ... as one of the Senators who is up for re-election in 2022, Abe wants to know if you will:

1.Denounce Hawley's plot as undemocratic
2.Announce you’re voting against any protest
3.Actually vote against the protest

We know you know better, now prove it.

Hey @lisamurkowski ... as one of the Senators who is up for re-election in 2022, Abe wants to know if you will:

1.Denounce Hawley's plot as undemocratic
2.Announce you’re voting against any protest
3.Actually vote against the protest

We know you know better, now prove it.

Hey @JohnBoozman ... as one of the Senators who is up for re-election in 2022, Abe wants to know if you will:

1.Denounce Hawley's plot as undemocratic
2.Announce you’re voting against any protest
3.Actually vote against the protest

We know you know better, now prove it.

Hey @ChuckGrassley ... as one of the Senators who is up for re-election in 2022, Abe wants to know if you will:

1.Denounce Hawley's plot as undemocratic
2.Announce you’re voting against any protest
3.Actually vote against the protest

We know you know better, now prove it.

Hey @marcorubio ... as one of the Senators who is up for re-election in 2022, Abe wants to know if you will:

1.Denounce Hawley's plot as undemocratic
2.Announce you’re voting against any protest
3.Actually vote against the protest

We know you know better, now prove it.

THREAD: Georgia — GEORGIA! — just elected a Black pastor and Jewish millennial to flip the U.S. Senate for the Democrats. /1

Georgia — GEORGIA! — just elected a Black pastor and Jewish millennial to flip the U.S. Senate for the Democrats. /2

Georgia — GEORGIA! — just elected a Black pastor and Jewish millennial to flip the U.S. Senate for the Democrats. /3

Georgia — GEORGIA! — just elected a Black pastor and Jewish millennial to flip the U.S. Senate for the Democrats. /4

Georgia — GEORGIA! — just elected a Black pastor and Jewish millennial to flip the U.S. Senate for the Democrats. /5

To every #Democrats who said #DonaldTrump did NOTHING, here is a list of WHAT HE DID.

👇👇👇👇👇

Trump recently signed 3 bills to benefit Native people. One gives compensation to the Spokane tribe for loss of their lands in the mid-1900s, one funds Native language programs, and the third gives federal recognition to the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians in Montana.

Every Republican active in politics during the Trump era should be remembered based only on where they drew the line.

Did they draw the line at his openly racist immigration platform?

Did they draw the line when Trump mocked a disabled reporter?

Did they draw the line when he was sued for fraud?

Did they draw the line when he said a Hispanic judge can't be fair because of his race?

Did they draw the line when he urged his supporters to shoot Hillary Clinton?

Did they draw the line when he boasted about assaulting women?

Did they draw the line when he encouraged violence against journalists?

Did they draw the line over his ties to Russia?

Did they draw the line when he tore up every global treaty that keeps the world safe?

Did they draw the line when he banned flights from Muslim countries?

Did they draw the line when his administration shredded civil rights for workers, rape survivors, and disabled students?

Did they draw the line when he banned transgender military service because Fox said he should?

Did they draw the line when he forced a tax bill that gave trillions to the rich despite public opposition?

Did they draw the line when he tried to strip 20 million of health care?