A Threat About the Nuclear Transfer of Power: When President Trump departs Joint Base Andrews at 8:00 am on 1/20, he will be accompanied by a military aide and an emergency actions team, never more than 2 doors or 2 minutes away... for the last time.

Simultaneously, as Joe Biden and Kamala Harris begin their day and prepare to depart for the U.S. Capitol, two teams of military aides -- with two other satchels -- will shadow them.

As VP Pence departs in a motorcade from the Naval Observatory, a FOURTH team from the White House Military Office will ride a few cars behind him.

And somewhere in a fortified bunker outside the National Capital Region, a FIFTH team, with a fifth "Presidents' Emergency Satchel" will sit quietly in a room munching snacks, as a "Designated Survivor" watches the inauguration on television -- or maybe catches up on TikTok.

A recipe for mass chaos? Confusion? Fear not. Of all things, the formal and operational transfer of status of the National Command Authority -- the person authorized by the Constitution and the law to initiate military operations including nuclear ones -- will be the smoothest.

If the USA were already surrounded by CCP troops both in Canada & in Mexico, would the government even tell us? Also, if Biden is allowed to be seated as @POTUS would this then trigger the "invasion" Red Dawn scenario? #TheMoreYouKnow @SecPompeo

The CPC, and their enabling press & surrogates, wish us to believe they haven't behaved like Trump's GOP. That they haven't copies Trump tactics, to try to get it to work in Canada as well.

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Here's a screenshot I made of a quote-tweet from just after the CPC leadership win, that indicates otherwise

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related to screenshot in tweet 2/

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during the day of the election, for CPC leader, I made a screenshot of CBC PnP's coverage - when the second ballot count had just been announced. Note that before the third ballot, Leslyn Lewis had the highest percentage of votes. You know who Dr Lewis' followers are? M*GA

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The CPC are also connected to the CCFR - NRA North

In 11 years, Donald Trump tweeted 57,160

📌 Questioning Barack Obama's birth certificate 📌

Donald Trump was the biggest public booster of the nonsense theory that President Barack Obama's birth certificate was fake, and that he had secretly been born in Kenya.

It put doubt in the minds of a quarter of Americans

📌 Rattling the stock market 📌

Donald Trump used the power of his position to target private companies.

Bank of America found that the stock market tended to fall on days when Trump tweeted more than 35 times, and rise when he tweeted less than 5

📌 Anyone for covfefe? 📌

This bizarre half-tweet was meme-ified at lightning speed and became obnoxious just as quickly, inspiring merchandise, a race horse name and a ban on "COVFEFE" licence plates in the state of Georgia

📌 Punching CNN 📌

To some, this video of Trump beating CNN in a wrestling match was a joke; to others, it was a threat to journalists.

Extremists took notice. They drew attention to their communities by injecting their ideas into the Twitter feeds of Trump's 89m followers

https://t.co/gZbAyf3UBq

Text of the Impeachment Resolutionhttps://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/static/2021/01/Articles-of-Impeachment-Incitement-of-Insurrection.pdf

It's very simple & short as it's a little over 3 pages. Article 1 is entitled, "Incitement of Insurrection". It focuses on the Trump rally in front of the WH during the deliberations on the electoral vote count in Congress in which he made false claims about the election.

The resolution next states that Trump "willfully made statements that encouraged—and foreseeably resulted in—imminent lawless action at the Capitol." He incited a riot which resulted in a mob attacking the Capitol and interfering in the process to certify the results.

The resolution brings up the phone call w/Raffensperger to 'find votes' to overturn the GA result to establish a long pattern & practice of Trump attempting to subvert election results. His activities threatened national security & interfered with a peaceful transition of power.

Because Trump represents an enduring threat to national security, the resolution calls for impeachment, trial, removal
from office, and "disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States." That's it.

We have excised a tumor, but the cancer still remains.

It will be tempting, once Trump has finally been ripped from the levers of power, to believe that everything is ok.

It isn't.

The conditions that led to Trump being elected in the first place haven't gone away.

They've gotten worse.

We haven't made our way back to zero. We're still in the red.

It is reliving to the soul and a respite that we are not being dragged further down.

Celebrate that.

We must embrace our successes and recognize the fruits of our labor.

But we must confuse victory in battle with victory in war.

Tomorrow, it will look like we have made our way back to 2015.

Seriousness in the White House, no Executive support of supremacists.

But we haven't.

We did not win societal change
We did not stage a revolution
We did not repair the nation
We did not undo Trumpism
We did not gain civil rights
We did not restore our standing.

What we did win was space and time.

We won space to breathe.

We won time for scientists and medical professionals to work.

We won the room we need to do the rigorous planning necessary to build on these victories.

The sword of Damocles no longer hangs above us and we have won a lower heart rate.

Washington, DC, during the final 100 hours of the Trump Administration. A few scenes from my morning walk with @mkimmage

By Farragut Square

Dupont Circle bus stop

Old Executive Office Building

Washington Monument, as close as you can get

I have more respect 4 Julian Assange today after seeing the clip yesterday where he tried to protect sources & methods (human lives) by warning HRC's State Dept in advance of the stolen State Dept Cables. He cared more than HRC. He should be immediately pardoned. @realDonaldTrump

The Proud Boys, led by Enrique Tarrio, arrested today in DC, have built a bridge between the Alt-Right + the Trump wing of the GOP. While they include men of color, their ideology is centered around white hegemony + patriarchy + celebrating violence against 'the Left.' A thread.

After the 'Unite the Right' rally in Charlottesville, the Alt-Right right collapsed in 2018 admits mass antifascist opposition. Tens of thousands took to the streets and as Richard Spencer explained, the Alt-Right was "pushed off the streets."

Far-Right organizers like Joey Gibson, who had built pan-far-Right coalitions that included neo-Nazis, white nationalists, militias groups, and the Proud Boys, lamented this reality, and pushed for a new street fighting coalition that could fight the Left in the streets.

Still lots of concern about what happens on January 6, given the recent conduct of President Trump and many in the House and Senate.

Bottom line: It'll be a ridiculous (maybe worse) political circus but legally it absolutely will not change the outcome of the election.

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1) Let's start with this VP business (Trump saying he hopes Pence "comes through," the Gohmert lawsuit). That's a big nothing. Under the Constitution, the VP's only role is to "open all the certificates" and, under federal law, to "read" them. It's entirely ceremonial. That's it.

2) Imagine if the VP actually did have the power to unilaterally reject votes. Any VP, in any year, could simply declare his own party the winner. Biden could have declared Hillary Clinton in Jan. 2017 over Trump; Cheney could have declared Romney in Jan. 2009 over Obama; etc.

3) I don't believe Pence will try it. And if he does, it'll be about as effective, constitutionally and legally, as using one of those oversized ceremonial "keys to the city" to actually open up the bank building.

4) Now, Congress. There's a federal law called the Electoral Count Act of 1887. (Note: this is a law but *not* part of the Constitution itself; this comes up again). That law says if one member of the House and one member of the Senate raise objections, Congress must debate.

If you will indulge me a little more, I'd like to share another element of the conspiracy theories surrounding inauguration, because we're hearing a LOT about Trump becoming the *19th* president of the United States

(no threats of violence here)
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OK SO - this truly bizarre story says that in 1871, the US ceased to be a nation and instead became a corporation that belongs to the city of London (attn @SadiqKhan)
AND if you see an American flag with gold fringe, well that represents the corporation NOT the country 2/

This, they say, is why the rich are privileged and the average guy can't get ahead. They do not explain why the City of London would do this to us, their American Corporation, but this is how we get the victim narrative introduced 3/

SO, the next step is that "Biden, Harris, Pence, Pelosi, etc." must be arrested before Inauguration for Crimes. We do not know who else is included in "etc" because, I suspect, figuring that out would take too much research on the part of whomever came up with this nonsense 4/

@Techno_Fog Does Donald Trump lose his Constitutional Rights when he becomes Mr.

https://t.co/4N44Gnm1zn

@Fiorella_im @Oinklet2 @LincolnS1866 @Ihavenousefora1 @ChaseLa74813330 @ComandanteMDT @WSWS_Updates @Genevievewsws @jkishore Response to this thread:

Petty-bourgeois radicals like @Fiorella_im, @Ihavenousefora1 are awed by Trump. They think this fascist representative of finance capital is an "oppositional" figure, they transform the mob wearing "camp auschwitz" shirts into oppressed victims.

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@Oinklet2 @LincolnS1866 @Ihavenousefora1 @ChaseLa74813330 @ComandanteMDT @WSWS_Updates @Genevievewsws @jkishore .@Fiorella_im was awed by Bernie Sanders, campaigned for him, now is mightily impressed by the petty-bourgeois rabble in the Capitol. On behalf of which class did this fascist mob mobilize? Anti-socialist, anti-Lockdown, anti-any measure to protect workers from #covid.

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@Oinklet2 @LincolnS1866 @Ihavenousefora1 @ChaseLa74813330 @ComandanteMDT @WSWS_Updates @Genevievewsws @jkishore In this discussion, the anti-WSWS ppl have explicitly called for orienting to the fascists. @Ihavenousefora1 and @LincolnS1866 have both said socialists must win over the fascists in the mob in Washington. Betrays hostility to mobilizing working class as ind'y social force.

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@Oinklet2 @LincolnS1866 @Ihavenousefora1 @ChaseLa74813330 @ComandanteMDT @WSWS_Updates @Genevievewsws @jkishore They argue Trump is to be defended, that he has "free speech" right to launch a coup. It is the equivalent of saying "Hands off Hitler." And they claim to be offended when told they are aiding Trump.

As always, there's never any historic content...

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@Oinklet2 @LincolnS1866 @Ihavenousefora1 @ChaseLa74813330 @ComandanteMDT @WSWS_Updates @Genevievewsws @jkishore They should study history. Are they aware of the experience of the Red Referendum of 1931?

Viral #TrumpsNewArmy Video Is Liberals At Their Craziest And Scariest

"So if you were hoping that maybe liberals would chill out and get a little less crazy with Trump out of the White House, I am sorry to be the bearer of bad

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My deepest thoughts about Donald Trump that you probably won't like.

What if the entire left right war is theater? Shut out all the arguments, policy differences, hate, love, ally, opponents, and think about the cumulative direction we're heading to as a planet. ->

I'm concerned there's an element in the world that is bulldozing its way forward to amassing resources regardless of the arguments happening in politics or society as a whole. It's as if they're living alongside us but in a different dimension altogether.  ->

A dimension where their will is as good as done.

If there's one thing this pandemic has taught me, it's if there ever was a nefarious force that achieved power they could tell us scared comfortable folks to sit down and shut up and we would do it. ->

Their whole 'plan' would be to make us pay attention to them. To pay attention to every detail, to every sound they make, to how their lips move as they tell us how much danger we are in.

They have authority in three important facets; one is a positional authority, ->

two is an authority by qualification, and the third is authority by experience. I mean, we would be insane to not listen to such a message, and yet. We still wouldn't know if the sprinkling of truth we find is all the truth there is to be known. ->