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When they want to intimidate elected leaders from carrying out lawful processes, they are simply "Anti-Kavanaugh protestsers take over the Senate Office Bldg. atrium on Capital Hill." https://t.co/gqDMAxahaS
They burn down cities, loot business: "Mostly peaceful protests," billions of dollars from corporate amerikwa, no reprocussions.
— Woke Capital (@WokeCapital) January 7, 2021
You have a peaceful gathering, go sightseeing at the Capitol: 'violent pro-Trump mob,' 'insurrectionists', 'coup', get shot in the head by police. pic.twitter.com/GJlPFP0YI5
Trump put out a video telling the protesters to go home. Gets a comms cut, Twitter and Facebook timeout.
Did any prominent democrat tell the BLM rioters to stop burning shit down, or did they pour gas on it.
There was a coup alright, it's just not the one being reported.
Yes, and the GOP continues to play their role as outer party controlled opposition. Washington Generals doing what the Washington Generals
The Democrats were saying this after Trump's election pic.twitter.com/Q3tfLxctXO
— rekt (@rorufufufu) January 7, 2021
At this point we see clearly Trump never held power. There's a giant power vacuum in the US right now, he failed to fill it.
That vacuum isn't going away. Those 75M MAGA voters aren't going to disappear.
The crackdown to come will only inflame tensions. This is just beginning.
Months of burning cities, billions in property damage and looting. Politicians, celebs ran fundraisers to help them post bail. They executed a MAGA in Portland. Cops, politicians, military literally bent the knee to them.
BIDEN: \u201cNo one can tell me that if that had been a group of Black lives matter protesting yesterday\u2026they wouldn\u2019t have been treated very, very differently than the mob of thugs that stormed the Capitol.\u201d pic.twitter.com/eNbu9iiTUr
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) January 7, 2021
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2/13 #StephenColbert: Hey, Republicans Who Supported This President: Are We Great Again Yet? - LIVE MONOLOGUE
https://t.co/CyLxDjP193 via @StephenAtHome @colbertlateshow #CapitolRiots
3/13 "Moments after voting on the Senate floor, Senator @amyklobuchar joins us from a secure location inside #CapitolBuilding and says the president is responsible for today's failed attempted coup, and she wants every person involved to be prosecuted."
4/13 "Republican @RepKinzinger joins @StephenAtHome to describe his experience inside the #CapitolBuilding during today's failed coup attempt and says that he expects conversations about using the 25th Amendment to remove the president will begin
5/13 #SethMeyers: Seth Meyers Calls For Trump's Removal After Violent Insurrection at Capitol
https://t.co/wOLtpCRkkc via @sethmeyers @LateNightSeth #CapitolRiots
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.
Unfortunately, yes. The prominence of small business and petty bourgeois "entrepeneurs" in far right coalitions is not (merely) a question of number of participants. It is that "small business owner" operates as an aspirational image for others in the coalition who are not https://t.co/heVfjpAcCa
— Louis R\xf6mer (@lromeranth) January 10, 2021
In my last conversation with a Trump fan I know, what came across strongly was the petty bourgeois resentment and even hatred of the government employee, who is invariably portrayed as a leech who doesn't work for a living (though they do and have low salaries for their resumes.)
This dovetails with white supremacist urges. For petty bourgeois that want to trap people of color into low-paid service work, seeing Black and Latino people at government desk jobs makes them irate. Nothing will get them raving about "wasting" taxpayer money faster.
That's what a lot of Cletus safari pieces are missing that those of us who actually know Trump voters aren't: The anger that is stirred every time they see a Black firefighter or a Latino county clerk, that rage that these folks have secure middle class jobs on "their" dime.
When Trump talked about the "deep state" out to get him, that's the bone he was tickling. That, and anger at the D.C. high level bureaucrat class that is well-educated and stirs the constant jealousy over people that are more cosmopolitan and sophisticated.
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The Most Fascist Things Donald Trump Has Done; A Thread PART ONE! pic.twitter.com/5SPApcXcS4
— Antifa International (@antifaintl) October 5, 2020
("Fascism," explained roughly via tweet = racism + ultra-nationalism + sexism + attacks on human rights, the media, & unions + obsessions w/ national security & law & order + near-religious fervor for charismatic leader + cronyism + corruption + election fraud.)
23) Trump hires white supremacist Stephen Miller to write his immigration
24) Trump hires white supremacist Steve Bannon as his 2016 campaign manager.
-lots of paperwork. Filling it in triggers delays.
-trained customs staff. We're short by 50k. That'll cause delays.
- IT systems. Several haven't launched yet. More delays.
This is why there'll be shortages @jbhearn. /1
If you are an EU supporter or a U.K. Remainer then the best thing to do will be to start a rumour, preferably by an expert, that No Deal will lead to food shortages and panic buying. This will ensure it happens and then you can say \u201ctold you so\u201d you silly Brexiteers.
— Professor John Hearn (@jbhearn) December 14, 2020
If you're exporting to EU, in the case of food products (dead or alive) you also need an official veterinarian (that's a thing) working with a certification support officer to deal with the sanitary and phytosanitory checks to generate a European Health Certificate /2
That EHC is then submitted at a border control post and also on the EU import control system. Only then can the truck travel into the EU. /3
Thing is, the importer in the EU will have to input *LOTS* of information into the EU's trade control and expert system (not the same as as the EU import control system) because it's arriving from outside the EU. /4
Alternatively the EU importer can skip all of the admin, fees and taxes triggered by importing from the UK by instead sourcing from a EU based company. That is why brexit will be an economic calamity for the UK; the operational reality is going to trump the economic theory. /5
What Murph's reporting (& opining) on is a survey that showed, in a time of international crisis where Australia has performed relatively well, politicians benefit from a "competence dividend"
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— Richard Chirgwin (@R_Chirgwin) December 25, 2020
That's neither a surprise, nor something to be sneered at. But it's a one-paragraph story. It's what you'd expect to see.
The journalist's role, you'd think, would be to critically unpick that. Work through what premiers & the PM did to deserve it, or otherwise.
One case that could be made is that the premiers stepped up, acted visibly & decisively on behalf of their respective states, & the PM is largely riding on their coattails.
Murph, though, has been on a weird campaign to position Morrison in particular as a statesman-in-waiting.
Once the federal government authorised Job Seeker/Lover/Keeper, Murph was convinced this was (bound to be) the end of Ideological Warrior Morrison and we'd see the emergence of pragmatic Morrison who could govern reasonably, in ways atypical of the way his party had been trending
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And LOL again.
The early economic interventions were made with a gun to his head. The idea he'd suddenly become a learning learner who learns was something Murph seemed desperate to hold on to, like it was important for her sense that federal politics could work properly.
I have the answer to how Trump got nominated, and the evidence, which is considerable. Putin had nothing to do with it.
Here we go---First, Hillary asked her friends in the media to "elevate" Trump as she wanted to run against
The media did exactly what they were asked to do by Hillary for America and DNC executives--They promoted
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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
2)While China and France have been enhancing their soldiers, the United States has been disabling and killing our soldiers without their consent in violation of the Nuremberg Code. @realDonaldTrump
3)Weaponizing Biotech: How China's Military Is Preparing for a 'New Domain of
4)France is developing bionic soldiers resistant to pain with microchip-enhanced brain power and superior hearing
https://t.co/xlYf22idor @realDonaldTrump
5)Why are our Gulf War veterans dying?
Our veterans were guinea pigs forced to take an unproven, untested drug to assess the effects of bio-warfare agents expected to be used by Saddam Hussein as we invaded Iraq @realDonaldTrump https://t.co/vIgmIXpfAp