The more contagious, but far less deadly omicron variant plus more frequent testing are likely driving cases up. However, the totally unexpected increase in deaths is concerning. The winter season may explain some of it, except Australia, where it is their summer. These data confirm that the countries with high vax and booster rates correlate with the Jan. 2022 increase in cases and deaths. This confirms that the most likely cause is the claimed negative efficacy effect from the overuse of the original vaccines. In other words, the original vaccines are now causing more harm than good.Sweden's herd immunity success is now busted, likely because of its belated decision to force vaccinations when almost everyone there was already protected by natural immunity.Australia's unexpected surge in cases and deaths suggests that its draconian lockdowns and other mandates have delayed COVID but totally failed to keep it away. Costly universal lockdowns, regardless of how extreme, serve only to delay the inevitable.Only India's exceptionally low death rate is unaffected at least so far, but its climbing vax rate, if continued, is a concern.The world needs to immediately cease relying on the original vaccines and learn to live with the virus. For people infected, follow India's example by approving the emergency use of similar early-treatment therapeutics to stop the progression of the disease before it can reach the stage resulting in hospitalization or death.Obviously, more in-depth research by professional immunologists with much more expertise than mine will be required to confirm these findings.
Let's face it. The virus has reached the stage where it is endemic and will be with us forever, just like the related common cold and seasonal flu. It's time for us to resume living our lives without the continual government fear-mongering, virtue-signaling, and freedom-robbing COVID mandates.
DON'T KNOW ABOUT SCOTLAND, BUT HERE IN AMERICA--- Republicans More Likely to Get Covid January 20, 2022 at 6:02 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 66 Comments
A new Economist-YouGov poll finds Republicans are significantly more likely to report having contracted the Covid-19 than are Democrats.
“That’s been the case for a while. The three-week average of responses to the question showed more reported positive tests among Republicans back in the fall of 2020. In recent weeks, though, the gap has widened.”
WELL, THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU KEEP SPEWING THE ANTI VAX PROPAGANDA.
Giuliani Oversaw Fake Electors Plot In 7 States January 20, 2022 at 6:23 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 208 Comments
Officials on Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign, led by his lawyer Rudy Giuliani, oversaw efforts to put forward illegitimate electors from seven states that the former president lost, CNN reports.
""Tonight, Republican senators lined up to shake Kyrsten Sinema's hand," Reich wrote in a since-deleted tweet. "Democratic senators should have given her the backs of their hands."Robert Reich
Boebert Asked Jewish Group If They Were ‘Reconnaissance’ January 20, 2022 at 5:48 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 121 Comments
Rep. Lauren Boebert left a group of Jewish visitors to the Capitol bewildered Thursday morning when she asked them if they were doing “reconnaissance” after seeing them at an elevator at the Capitol, BuzzFeed News reports.
Trump began promulgating election-related conspiracy theories at least as early as June 2020, when he and his team started questioning the legality of mail-in voting, especially as the practice was being more widely adopted because of COVID:
That month, Attorney General Bill Barr told the New York Times that foreign governments might conspire to mail in fake ballots. Those conspiracy theories escalated dramatically in the wee hours of election night. Before votes were done being counted, as results appeared to be moving in Biden’s favor, Trump stood in the East Room of the White House, declared himself the winner, and warned that fraud was underway:
This is a fraud on the American public. This is an embarrassment to our country. We were getting ready to win this election. Frankly, we did win this election. We did win this election. So our goal now is to ensure the integrity for the good of this nation. This is a very big moment. This is a major fraud in our nation. We want the law to be used in a proper manner. So we’ll be going to the US Supreme Court. We want all voting to stop. We don’t want them to find any ballots at four o’clock in the morning and add them to the list. Okay? It’s a very sad moment. To me this is a very sad moment and we will win this. And as far as I’m concerned, we already have won it.
Vice President Mike Pence stood beside Trump and gave all indications he agreed. “I truly do believe as you do that we are on the road to victory, and we will make America great again,” Pence said.
From there, Trump surrogates blitzed the internet and airwaves, pushing all manner of theories in an attempt to prove the president’s words to be true. The various grab-bag conspiracies were best represented in a wild ninety-minute November 19, 2020 press conference held by Trump’s legal team at the Republican National Committee headquarters (the press conference most famous for Rudy Giuliani’s sweatily dripping hair dye). They alleged that foreign countries were counting votes; that votes were being illegally “manufactured” and “overcounted”; and that Dominion and Smartmatic voting machines could “flip” votes.
Much later, we learned that some members of Trump’s own campaign internally warned the lawyers before the press conference that many of their claims, particularly about the voting machines, weren’t true. It didn’t stop them.
Many of the conspiracy theories became the basis of courtroom challenges by Trump’s legal team, which filed roughly sixty losing lawsuits, most of them in battleground states that Biden won: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
One of those lawsuits, which went straight to the Supreme Court as Trump foreshadowed, is especially significant.
In early December, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, at the behest of the Trump campaign, filed a suit seeking the nullification of the election results in four key states that Biden won: Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin. As Kimberly Wehle summarized:
It makes a slew of audacious factual allegations that are unestablished and untested. Basically, he argues that the state defendants shouldn’t have allowed mail-in balloting the way they did, and cites “mysterious late night dumps of thousands of ballots at tabulation centers; illegally backdating thousands of ballots,” and videos of “poll workers erupting in cheers as poll challengers are removed from vote counting centers,” among an avalanche of other unsubstantiated and previously repudiated factual claims. (My favorite is the “expert analysis” that allegedly calculated the “probability of former Vice President Biden winning the popular vote in the four Defendant States” as “less than one in a quadrillion, or 1 in 1,000,000,000,000,000.”)
It was a ridiculous gambit, but a shocking number of Republicans took it seriously enough to pledge their names. Trump whipped support, and within a day, 127 Republican House members, including House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, signed an amicus brief. Seventeen Republican state attorneys general, the chief law enforcers in their respective states, also signed on. Trump asked Texas Sen. Ted Cruz if he would argue the case before the Supreme Court. Cruz agreed.
Cruz never had to argue the case, though, because the Supreme Court, which by this point included three Trump appointees, refused to hear it. Yet Paxton’s suit still had a galvanizing effect. It put a convincing number of elected Republican elites on record with their willingness to reject millions of votes without any proven evidence of fraud.
As Trump pressed his case in court, he simultaneously pushed government lawyers to launch investigations to lend some credibility to his charges. In an unsettling departure from Department of Justice precedent, Attorney General Bill Barr on November 9, 2020 gave federal prosecutors approval to investigate the president’s unfounded claims.
By the next month, Barr said nothing had been found, telling an Associated Press reporter that “we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome of the election.” Trump reportedly screamed at Barr for this, and soon the attorney general announced his resignation.
Around that time, Trump secretly met with Acting Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey B. Clark to discuss a plan for Republican state legislatures to launch their own investigations as a means to eventually overturn Biden’s win.
Why did Trump go through Clark instead of Jeffrey Rosen, the man who assumed Barr’s position when he left? Acting Attorney General Rosen wasn’t willing to play ball. Rosen later testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee about how he was pressured by Trump directly. Acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue submitted notes he took during one December 27, 2020 phone call between Rosen and the president. According to the notes, Rosen told Trump he must “understand that the DOJ can’t + won’t snap its fingers + change the outcome of the election, doesn’t work that way.”
“[I] don’t expect you to do that,” Trump is said to have answered, “just say that the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me and the R. Congressmen.”
More worrisome, Rosen also testified that Clark circulated a draft letter on December 28, 2020 he wanted Rosen to approve. It was to be delivered to Republican officials in Georgia, asking them to hold a special legislative session to investigate voter fraud. It said:
The Department of Justice is investigating various irregularities in the 2020 election for President of the United States. The Department will update you as we are able on investigatory progress, but at this time we have identified significant concerns that may have impacted the outcome of the election in multiple States, including the State of Georgia.
And:
While the Department of Justice believe[s] the Governor of Georgia should immediately call a special session to consider this important and urgent matter, if he declines to do so, we share with you our view that the Georgia General Assembly has implied authority under the Constitution of the United States to call itself into special session for [t]he limited purpose of considering issues pertaining to the appointment of Presidential Electors.
Rosen refused to sign the letter, and then, according to Rosen, Clark told him that Trump offered to make Clark attorney general. But Clark said that he would decline if Rosen would sign. On January 3, 2021, Clark told Rosen he would accept Trump’s offer to replace Rosen as acting attorney general. But Rosen quickly organized with others and threatened to resign if Trump did so. Clark’s plan then fell apart.
Initially centered on the lawsuits, activists waged a nationwide grassroots “Stop the Steal” advocacy campaign that embraced the conspiracy theories and pressured Republicans reluctant to go along with Trump’s schemes. It also attracted the more violent parts of Trump’s base and provided them several opportunities to recruit and train members twice in the nation’s capital before Jan. 6th.
They mobilized fast. Immediately after the election, protests demanding that election workers “Stop the Count” materialized in Michigan as Trump supporters sought to discount mail-in ballots that took longer to count and largely favored Biden. On November 14, 2020, thousands of Trump supporters rallied in Washington. The events descended into street violence that evening, leaving two officers injured.
A group called Women for America First embarked on a multi-week, twenty-city “March for Trump” bus tour to stoke anger and fear over the election nationwide.
Later that month, protesters began swarming outside the homes of state officials in Georgia and Michigan. Georgia elections official Gabriel Sterling warned: “Someone’s going to get hurt, someone’s going to get shot, someone’s going to get killed, and it’s not right.”
Thousands of pro-Trump protesters returned to Washington for a December 12 rally, just two days before the Electoral College would be assembling in state capitals across the country to certify the results of the November vote. Trump tweeted his encouragement:
The Washington Post reported: “In helmets and bulletproof vests, Proud Boys marched through downtown in militarylike rows, shouting ‘move out’ and ‘1776!’” They clashed with counterprotesters and at least four people were stabbed. The report continued: “D.C. police said that as of 9 p.m., 23 people were arrested Saturday, including 10 who were charged with misdemeanor assaults, six with assaulting police officers and four with rioting. Police said one person had an illegal Taser.”
Women for America First secured the permits for both the November and December protests that ended in violence. By the end of December, the same group was working to organize the Jan. 6th rally, which Trump promoted.
Meanwhile, the Georgia runoff election became another staging ground for “Stop the Steal” advocacy under the banner of helping Republicans win re-election. Trump made two trips to Georgia ostensibly to campaign for incumbent GOP senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, but in reality to continue to push his grievances about the election. In Valdosta on December 5, 2020 he told the crowd, “Let them steal Georgia again, you’ll never be able to look yourself in the mirror.”
That month, after losing so many court cases, Trump’s legal team shifted into public-relations mode. Trump adviser Bernard Kerik recently provided the House Jan. 6th Committee with a 22-page document titled “Strategic Communications Plan” that described how to “educate the public on the fraud numbers, and inspire citizens to call upon legislators and Members of Congress to disregard the fraudulent vote count and certify the duly-elected President Trump.”
The timeline for the plan to be carried out was Dec. 27th to Jan. 6th. The campaign’s targets were swing-state Republican senators in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, as well as House Republicans.
The memo asserted that “massive corruption in the election process led to a vote tally that is fraudulent” and contained a laundry list of allegations: underage and ineligible people voted, and votes were cast in the name of dead people. It mentioned “illegalities,” fraudulent ballots, mail-in ballot fraud, “Dominion machines fraud,” and “election officials’ illegal actions.”
The memo’s recommended messaging emphasized accusatory questions, such as “What do you elections officials have to hide?” and “Why are you defending this corruption?”
The memo also called for protests at the homes of members of Congress (among other public officials), something disturbing that had already happened and that the Trump team apparently wanted more of.
The pressure worked.
For example, Trump returned to Georgia for another rally on January 4, 2021, a day before the runoff. Standing alongside Trump on stage in Dalton, Kelly Loeffler said that she would oppose certifying Biden as president when Congress tallied Electoral College votes the next day.
On December 10, 2020, the Conservative Action Project, headed by Ken Blackwell, proposed a clear-cut way to flip the Biden votes to Trump. A memo detailing the proposal was signed by many well-known conservative leaders, including Al Regnery, Tony Perkins, Jim DeMint, and Brent Bozell.
Collectively, this group recommended that legislatures in the battleground states appoint new electors who would provide the Electoral College votes needed for Trump to be certified as president on Jan. 6th:
There is no doubt President Donald J. Trump is the lawful winner of the presidential election. Joe Biden is not president-elect.
Accordingly, state legislatures in the battleground states of Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, Nevada, and Michigan should exercise their plenary power under the Constitution and appoint clean slates of electors to the Electoral College to support President Trump. Similarly, both the House and Senate should accept only these clean Electoral College slates and object to and reject any competing slates in favor of Vice President Biden from these states.
The idea took hold. Trump flacks Stephen Miller and Kayleigh McEnany confirmed the strategy and pushed it on the airwaves.
State legislatures did not take up the idea to appoint new electors, but rogue groups of Republicans in seven states created phony electoral certificates to that effect and sent them to Congress. In two of the states, the phony elector certificates included a caveat saying that the ballots would only take effect if Trump won those states. Not so in the the other five states, as Philip Rotner pointed out this week:
The phony Trump electors from each of the other five states—Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada and Wisconsin—certified that they were in fact the “duly elected and qualified Electors for President and Vice President of the United States of America” from their respective states.
These phony certificates supposedly from competing slates of electors were not a sideshow, an irrelevant gimmick. They were key to the coup plan, forming the basis of the law professor John Eastman’s infamous memo, first obtained by Robert Costa and Bob Woodwood for their book Peril. The short version of the Eastman memo outlined a six-step “January 6 scenario” to overturn the election, starting with the assertion that “7 states have transmitted dual slates of electors to the President of the Senate.” Eastman envisioned Vice President Pence making an announcement on Jan. 6th that “because of the ongoing disputes in the 7 States, there are no electors that can be deemed validly appointed in those States.” The long version of the Eastman memo is similarly dependent on the fraudulent electoral slates.
Looking to the courts to assist on this point, Rep. Louie Gohmert and a slate of fake electors from Arizona filed a suit in late December 2020 that asked for Pence to be given “exclusive authority and sole discretion under the Twelfth Amendment to determine which slates of electors for a State, or neither, may be counted.” The district court tossed out Gohmert’s suit.
But Trump still wanted Pence to act. In Oval Office meetings on Jan. 4 and 5, 2021, he tried to foist Eastman’s idea on Pence. In a Jan. 6 tweet, Trump called on Pence to show “extreme courage.” And in his speech at the Ellipse on Jan. 6, he made his expectations of the vice president crystal clear. In addition to encouraging the crowd to “fight like hell,” Trump said:
I hope Mike is going to do the right thing. I hope so. I hope so.
Because if Mike Pence does the right thing, we win the election. All he has to do, all this is, this is from the number one, or certainly one of the top, Constitutional lawyers in our country. He has the absolute right to do it. We’re supposed to protect our country, support our country, support our Constitution, and protect our constitution.
States want to revote. The states got defrauded, They were given false information. They voted on it. Now they want to recertify. They want it back. All Vice President Pence has to do is send it back to the states to recertify and we become president and you are the happiest people.
And I actually, I just spoke to Mike. I said: “Mike, that doesn’t take courage. What takes courage is to do nothing. That takes courage.” And then we’re stuck with a president who lost the election by a lot and we have to live with that for four more years. We’re just not going to let that happen.
Pence didn’t go through with it.
Ultimately, on Jan. 6th some 147 Republican senators and representatives—more than half of the Republicans in Congress—joined in objecting to the final certification of the Arizona and Pennsylvania electoral slates. Trump adviser Peter Navarro bragged about having provided ”research” to members to back up their objections. Donald Trump approved; he ordered Navarro’s reports to be issued to House and Senate offices.
Trump also worked furiously behind the scenes to get state and local Republicans to do his bidding.
In mid-November 2020, he phoned two members of a local canvassing board in Detroit, Michigan after they rescinded their votes to certify the election. Elated, Trump’s legal adviser Jenna Ellis tweeted:
BREAKING: This evening, the county board of canvassers in Wayne County, MI refused to certify the election results. If the state board follows suit, the Republican state legislator will select the electors. Huge win for @realDonaldTrump
This was one of the first public indications that Team Trump was thinking about using state legislators to select alternate slates of electors.
Ahead of Michigan’s deadline to certify the election, Trump invited a group of Michigan Republican lawmakers to the White House. A meeting was held, but afterward the lawmakers said they were committed to letting the certification process play out.
Trump’s main focus, however, was on Georgia.
On December 23, 2020, Trump called Georgia’s lead elections investigator, Frances Watson, and encouraged her to find the “dishonesty” in Cobb County’s mail-in ballot signatures audit. “The people of Georgia are so angry at what happened to me,” he told her. “They know I won, won by hundreds of thousands of votes. It wasn’t close.”
He then called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on January 2, 2021 and was far more aggressive. During the one-hour call, Trump demanded that Raffensperger “recalculate” the vote totals and “find” enough votes to award him the win in Georgia.
“All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. Because we won the state,” Trump said.
And that’s just what happened during the calls that were leaked.
Many questions, both big and small, about the Trump coup remain unanswered—including questions about how much (if any) of the mob violence at the Capitol was anticipated by Trump’s advisers; who (if anyone) coordinated the efforts of the Republicans who submitted fraudulent Electoral College certificates; and why it took more than three hours for the Capitol to be secured.
But enough is known already that we can say this: Although Trump wasn’t successful in overturning the election, his schemes captured the hearts and minds of the Republican base, many members of the Republican elite, conservative media, and fringe militia groups alike. Those groups worked in concert toward an end goal of rejecting Electoral College votes on Jan 6th.
Hardly anyone could have predicted that after the election was called for Biden, such a sweeping GOP machine would insist that Trump won and work to make the fantasy come true. Especially after each state met to certify their elections on December 14, 2020. What should have been a moment to make a firm break from Trump, to repudiate the defeated president, instead became a reason to unite behind his losing cause.
Don’t think they won’t try again.
Demented fascist like Scott are trying to try it again.
Republicans are suddenly crying “socialism!” and eagerly blaming Biden for the spike in prices, but let’s be fair. While the government has been pumping money into the economy at a record clip over the past 14 years, most of that has been the work of the Federal Reserve, and President Donald Trump was the most vociferous proponent of easy money we’ve ever seen.
Milton Friedman taught that “Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.” Since the financial crisis of 2008, the Federal Reserve has been shoveling money out the door with pitchforks, and in the wake of COVID, both the central bank and the federal government have been “dropping money from helicopters,” to use the image also coined by Friedman.
Many economists believe the Fed was right to do this as a response to the financial crisis of 2008. The controversy arises about when it was time to stop. Certainly, by the advent of the Trump administration, when growth was steady and unemployment low, the prudent course would have been to scale back the money geyser, and that’s what the Fed started to do. But that’s not what the Trump-led GOP favored.
Trump’s money gusher began in 2017 with the $1.9 trillion tax cut that wasn’t matched with any spending cuts. The GOP didn’t sniff out socialism then, despite estimates that the Trump tax cuts increased the deficit by $3.9 trillion.
According to the indictment, Rhodes purchased tens of thousands of dollars worth of firearms, ammunition, and rifle scopes before and after January 6, making him by far the greatest threat of all the Oath Keepers. It’s unlikely investigators just recently discovered these purchases. So why was he a free man for the past 12 months, charged seemingly in response to aggressive questioning in Congress that threatened to upend the liberal insurrection narrative?
Something doesn’t add up.????????
Is it still likely Rhodes worked in some capacity as an informant? Yes. Is the government announcing these bombshell charges now to deflect mounting suspicions that the FBI and other agencies used numerous informants and agents to instigate violence on January 6? Yes. Will these new charges succeed in delaying the first trial in the Oath Keepers case, set for April? Yes.
What they will not do is serve to establish in court that anything like an insurrection took place on January 6. Instead, step by step, this carefully crafted narrative will crumble, eventually taking with it the last shreds of credibility for the Democrats, the Justice Department, and the liberal press.
Shocking Scotland Covid Report: Unvaccinated Case Rates Vs. Double-Vaccinated Hospital Admissions
Shocking that LIl Schitty would fall for another pile of propaganda without consideration that cases and hospitalzations have plummeted there!!!!! Sorry sport. you truly have turned into a trump loser!!!!
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! And you get all stupid trying to make a point!!!!!! Why are people dying from covid because they don't have the shot???? Is it they are just as stupid as you not taking it??????
NEW - Peter Doshi, a senior editor of the BMJ – one of the world's oldest general medical journals – calls for the full and immediate release of all data related to COVID vaccines and treatments.
He might finally realize that he is The President of the United States, instead of being Senator, and will use the bully pulpit to save America from this Republican party of King Donald Trump.
New York Times: “Mr. Biden will retreat from the tangle of day-to-day negotiations with members of his own party that have made him seem powerless to advance key priorities, according to senior White House advisers. The change is part of an intentional reset in how he spends his time, aimed at emphasizing his power to govern as president, rather than getting trapped in a series of congressional battles.”
“Four internal strategy memos drafted by White House advisers this week lay out the shift ahead of Mr. Biden’s first State of the Union address to Congress on March 1: The president will ramp up his attacks on Republicans ahead of the midterm election campaigns to help Democratic candidates. He will travel the nation more and engage with voters. And he will focus more on what he has already accomplished than on legislative victories he hopes to achieve.”
“The president is also planning to use his executive power to help former inmates return to society and reform police departments, after legislation on the latter issue failed to pass last year.”
Scott Morefield VIDEO: https://twitter.com/SKMorefield/status/1483649674615697409
Johns Hopkins' Dr. Marty Makary: "There's actually broad consensus now by public health officials acknowledging privately, & they're starting to say so publicly, that cloth masks have almost no impact on transmission whatsoever, and we basically have known that the entire time."
The CDC's problem is not "messaging". Its bad policy. Ignoring nat imm, not releasing data, pushing boosters on healthy kids, quarantining low-risk immune students, closing schools last yr & using flawed Maricopa mask study are not messaging problems. They're flawed data problems
and following the funder of Covid origination and response, Fauci
Prior Covid-19 Infection Offered Better Protection Than Vaccination During Delta Wave CDC says research from California and New York before Omicron’s spread showed unvaccinated people without previous infection faced greatest risk
Former White House Advisor Peter Navarro didn’t mince words when he stated that vaccinating children, is “abuse at a minimum and murder in some cases.”
Be an influencer
Patriots need to use their influence, whether it’s large or small, to promote change. We can’t all be a cable news host like Tucker Carlson, a podcaster like Candace Owens, or a columnist like Mollie Hemingway. Our smaller centers of influence are just as critically important. Edmund Burke said, “Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”
Millions of patriot influencers are just as important (maybe even more so) than celebrity opinion hosts, podcasters, or columnists. Whether it’s thought-provoking remarks at family gatherings, a quick comment standing on the supermarket checkout line, writing letters to the editor, or posting on social media, you can be the person who influences others.
For me, it’s gratifying that my regular American Thinker columns and weekly Patriot Neighbors newsletter lets others know they aren’t alone in their MAGA views and offers information on MAGA events.
Yes, it’s overwhelming at times with the left-leaning media pushing the White House Marxist narrative. I also get pushback from Republican establishment organizations when taking opposing positions, such as not going along with the insanity that a biological man can be a woman. But for the United States to survive as a free republic, patriots must not be afraid to speak up even if it means losing “friends.” In the process, we gain new ones who firmly stand for Judeo-Christian patriotic values.
As Dale Carnegie once said, “Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.” I dare all patriots to influence others!
Joe Biden has been president for a year, and he has sucked beyond all comprehension. He is quite possibly the worst president ever.
Is this going to be a biased, partisan post? Why yes. Because the democrats elected a corrupt dipshit, who has just gotten more pathetic with age. Biden sucks so bad that he is going to drag your entire political party down, and the mid terms are shaping up to be a bloodbath the likes of which American politics haven’t seen in any of our lifetimes. All that demographic inevitability you’ve been crowing about since Obama? Evaporated.
Democrat congressmen are retiring in droves because they see better polling data than we do, and in the polls the public can see, Biden is the kiss of death. Nobody can deny the stink of failure.
So just own it, and shut the fuck up. Spare us the inane comments about Orange Man Bad. Sure. But Bad Touch Grandpa Worse.
Way fucking worse.
Biden has accomplished exactly one thing. And that’s demonstrating beyond a shadow of a doubt to all reasonable, thinking Americans that democrats are total shit at governing. They talk a big game, but it’s all just platitudes, wishful thinking, and magic unicorns farting free shit. Their claimed philosophy is childlike and disintegrates when it touches reality, exposing their actual philosophy, which is draconian control freaks who are compelled to meddle in everything. And the less they understand something, the more they feel the need to fuck with it.
Even with big tech and the media doing everything in their power to cover for Biden’s multitude of failures, it’s so bad that the most technologically advanced propaganda engine in human history simply can’t keep up.
Trump and His Children on the Defensive January 21, 2022 at 9:30 am EST By Taegan Goddard 24 Comments
“A flurry of decisions by the Supreme Court and federal and state investigators have forced Donald Trump and his adult children to defend their conduct on multiple fronts, potentially jeopardizing their futures — or perhaps yet again allowing the former president to escape unscathed,” the Washington Post reports.
Daily Beast: “Ivanka Trump has largely avoided the national spotlight for the last year. Now, investigators in two separate probes think she could be key to her father’s undoing.”
Ron DeSantis Knows the Formula to Defeat Trump January 21, 2022 at 9:15 am EST By Taegan Goddard 56 Comments
Rich Lowry: “After Trump’s presidency, the party is more populist, focused on the culture war, resistant to media narratives and skeptical of business — and it would remain so if Trump retired tomorrow and promised never to utter another word about politics.”
“Although in many ways an orthodox conservative, DeSantis covers all these bases. Importantly, he’s a lightning rod for criticism from the left — now a major plus for Republican voters — and gives as good as he gets in clashes with the media. There are few causes that light up the Republican base that he doesn’t find a way to address, whether on big tech or critical race theory, and he has emerged as the party’s exemplar on the pandemic, with his strenuous opposition to lockdowns and mandates. This gives him credibility with Trump voters and the foundation to compete with Trump, not as a critic or scold, but as someone who can do it better and, in a few instances, perhaps go further.”
“In fact, it is likely that the most successful line of attack against a potential candidate Trump will prove, one way or the other, to come from the right.”
Michael Flynn Allies Sought Dirt on GOP Lawmakers January 21, 2022 at 8:17 am EST By Taegan Goddard 81 Comments
FBI agents and the House panel investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol have both learned of an alleged plan by allies of retired army Lt Gen Michael Flynn to gather “intelligence” on top Republicans to “move” them to back election audits in key states Trump lost, The Guardian reports.
How Biden Can Save the Democrats In November January 21, 2022 at 8:10 am EST By Taegan Goddard 57 Comments
Harry Enten: “Ultimately, the one thing that can probably save the Democrats in November is if Biden’s approval rating improves. That’s certainly possible. However, it is unlikely. No president has seen a double-digit improvement in his net approval rating from now until his first midterm like Biden would need to have a positive net approval rating.”
“That said, no president in the polling era has had to deal with a global health crisis like the coronavirus this early in his first term, either. It’s plausible that the old historical rules won’t apply.”
Trump Friends Concerned About His Pick of Lawyer January 20, 2022 at 11:41 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 201 Comments
Close associates and advisers to Donald Trump told Axios they’re concerned “by his decision to use a relatively inexperienced New Jersey attorney, Alina Habba, in his high-stakes legal fight against New York Attorney General Letitia James.”
“A former president typically has access to the country’s most prestigious experts, including lawyers. Trump has turned to the former general counsel for a parking garage company, who works from a small law office near his Bedminster, N.J., country club.”
Giuliani Oversaw Fake Electors Plot In 7 States January 20, 2022 at 6:23 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 322 Comments
Officials on Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign, led by his lawyer Rudy Giuliani, oversaw efforts to put forward illegitimate electors from seven states that the former president lost, CNN reports.
BEARS REPEATING Republicans More Likely to Get Covid January 20, 2022 at 6:02 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 84 Comments
A new Economist-YouGov poll finds Republicans are significantly more likely to report having contracted the Covid-19 than are Democrats.
“That’s been the case for a while. The three-week average of responses to the question showed more reported positive tests among Republicans back in the fall of 2020. In recent weeks, though, the gap has widened.”
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the U.S. would formally address the Kremlin’s claims that Western powers threaten Russian security, as both sides agreed to continue talks on how to avert a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Russia has massed about 100,000 troops near Ukraine in response to what it says are threats to its security from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and Western powers. The move has created one of the worst crises between Russia and the West since the Cold War, with many fearing Russia will invade its smaller neighbor.
The Kremlin has blamed NATO for endangering its security and requested a written response to its demands that the alliance stop accepting new members and reduce its force posture in Eastern Europe.
While U.S. and Western officials have rejected those demands, Mr. Blinken agreed to respond in detail to Russia’s concerns and provide written proposals for reciprocal moves to improve security in the region.
“We will share with Russia a response to the concerns that it’s raised, our own concerns, and put some ideas on the table for consideration, and then we plan to meet again after Russia’s had the opportunity to look at that paper,” Mr. Blinken told reporters after meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. “And we’ll see where we go from there.”
Still, Mr. Blinken warned Mr. Lavrov that any moves against Ukraine would trigger financial sanctions or other measures.
“We are doing everything possible to make clear to Russia that there will be, as I said, a swift, severe and united response to any form of aggression by Russia directed toward Ukraine,” Mr. Blinken said.
In remarks after the meeting in Geneva, Mr. Lavrov suggested that Russia had won a small victory in convincing the U.S. to agree to provide written responses on security proposals the Kremlin presented to Washington last month.
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Putin wants to rebuild the Soviet Union empire, but we will prevail, financially.
U.S., Russia Agree to Keep Negotiating to Defuse Ukraine Crisis https://www.wsj.com/articles/blinken-to-meet-russias-foreign-minister-amid-ukraine-border-crisis-11642752344
Over 458,000 Americans have died from #COVID19 since January 20, 2021.
actually it's WITH Covid but the CDC hasn't changed how it collects and distributes data
yet
and apparently the POS "pastor" thinks they are mostly Republicans
though I did see that in San Fransisco (a fairly liberal city and taking extreme measures) a overwhelming percentage of those hospitalized with Covid were now vaccinated.
Tim Young https://twitter.com/TimRunsHisMouth/status/1484163090971250692 Fun Fact: Robert Reich, the leftist who advocates for violence against women... is only 4'11"!
72 comments:
Science fiction
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/01/why_the_vaccines_dont_work.html
It's just the flu
Some Key Takeaways:
The more contagious, but far less deadly omicron variant plus more frequent testing are likely driving cases up. However, the totally unexpected increase in deaths is concerning. The winter season may explain some of it, except Australia, where it is their summer. These data confirm that the countries with high vax and booster rates correlate with the Jan. 2022 increase in cases and deaths. This confirms that the most likely cause is the claimed negative efficacy effect from the overuse of the original vaccines. In other words, the original vaccines are now causing more harm than good.Sweden's herd immunity success is now busted, likely because of its belated decision to force vaccinations when almost everyone there was already protected by natural immunity.Australia's unexpected surge in cases and deaths suggests that its draconian lockdowns and other mandates have delayed COVID but totally failed to keep it away. Costly universal lockdowns, regardless of how extreme, serve only to delay the inevitable.Only India's exceptionally low death rate is unaffected at least so far, but its climbing vax rate, if continued, is a concern.The world needs to immediately cease relying on the original vaccines and learn to live with the virus. For people infected, follow India's example by approving the emergency use of similar early-treatment therapeutics to stop the progression of the disease before it can reach the stage resulting in hospitalization or death.Obviously, more in-depth research by professional immunologists with much more expertise than mine will be required to confirm these findings.
Let's face it. The virus has reached the stage where it is endemic and will be with us forever, just like the related common cold and seasonal flu. It's time for us to resume living our lives without the continual government fear-mongering, virtue-signaling, and freedom-robbing COVID mandates.
Biden fucked up his presser so badly, jen Psaki actually went onto fox news to do clean up. That's how bad it was.
ALKY
"This is pretty clear proof that Biden has over-promised "
Biden yesterday
"I didn't overpromise, and what I have probably outperformed what anybody thought would happen," Biden
Joe explained his policy about Ukraine perfectly.
Some invation by Putin is ok.
DON'T KNOW ABOUT SCOTLAND,
BUT HERE IN AMERICA---
Republicans More Likely to Get Covid
January 20, 2022 at 6:02 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 66 Comments
A new Economist-YouGov poll finds Republicans are significantly more likely to report having contracted the Covid-19 than are Democrats.
“That’s been the case for a while. The three-week average of responses to the question showed more reported positive tests among Republicans back in the fall of 2020. In recent weeks, though, the gap has widened.”
WELL, THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU KEEP SPEWING THE ANTI VAX PROPAGANDA.
Giuliani Oversaw Fake Electors Plot In 7 States
January 20, 2022 at 6:23 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 208 Comments
Officials on Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign, led by his lawyer Rudy Giuliani, oversaw efforts to put forward illegitimate electors from seven states that the former president lost, CNN reports.
Socialism corner stone is Violence.
""Tonight, Republican senators lined up to shake Kyrsten Sinema's hand," Reich wrote in a since-deleted tweet. "Democratic senators should have given her the backs of their hands."Robert Reich
Boebert Asked Jewish Group If They Were ‘Reconnaissance’
January 20, 2022 at 5:48 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 121 Comments
Rep. Lauren Boebert left a group of Jewish visitors to the Capitol bewildered Thursday morning when she asked them if they were doing “reconnaissance” after seeing them at an elevator at the Capitol, BuzzFeed News reports.
THE ANTISEMITIC WING OF THE GOP CHEERS.
The Slow motion coup started
1. The Conspiracy Theories
Trump began promulgating election-related conspiracy theories at least as early as June 2020, when he and his team started questioning the legality of mail-in voting, especially as the practice was being more widely adopted because of COVID:
That month, Attorney General Bill Barr told the New York Times that foreign governments might conspire to mail in fake ballots. Those conspiracy theories escalated dramatically in the wee hours of election night. Before votes were done being counted, as results appeared to be moving in Biden’s favor, Trump stood in the East Room of the White House, declared himself the winner, and warned that fraud was underway:
This is a fraud on the American public. This is an embarrassment to our country. We were getting ready to win this election. Frankly, we did win this election. We did win this election. So our goal now is to ensure the integrity for the good of this nation. This is a very big moment. This is a major fraud in our nation. We want the law to be used in a proper manner. So we’ll be going to the US Supreme Court. We want all voting to stop. We don’t want them to find any ballots at four o’clock in the morning and add them to the list. Okay? It’s a very sad moment. To me this is a very sad moment and we will win this. And as far as I’m concerned, we already have won it.
Vice President Mike Pence stood beside Trump and gave all indications he agreed. “I truly do believe as you do that we are on the road to victory, and we will make America great again,” Pence said.
From there, Trump surrogates blitzed the internet and airwaves, pushing all manner of theories in an attempt to prove the president’s words to be true. The various grab-bag conspiracies were best represented in a wild ninety-minute November 19, 2020 press conference held by Trump’s legal team at the Republican National Committee headquarters (the press conference most famous for Rudy Giuliani’s sweatily dripping hair dye). They alleged that foreign countries were counting votes; that votes were being illegally “manufactured” and “overcounted”; and that Dominion and Smartmatic voting machines could “flip” votes.
Much later, we learned that some members of Trump’s own campaign internally warned the lawyers before the press conference that many of their claims, particularly about the voting machines, weren’t true. It didn’t stop them.
2. The Lawsuits
Many of the conspiracy theories became the basis of courtroom challenges by Trump’s legal team, which filed roughly sixty losing lawsuits, most of them in battleground states that Biden won: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
One of those lawsuits, which went straight to the Supreme Court as Trump foreshadowed, is especially significant.
In early December, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, at the behest of the Trump campaign, filed a suit seeking the nullification of the election results in four key states that Biden won: Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin. As Kimberly Wehle summarized:
It makes a slew of audacious factual allegations that are unestablished and untested. Basically, he argues that the state defendants shouldn’t have allowed mail-in balloting the way they did, and cites “mysterious late night dumps of thousands of ballots at tabulation centers; illegally backdating thousands of ballots,” and videos of “poll workers erupting in cheers as poll challengers are removed from vote counting centers,” among an avalanche of other unsubstantiated and previously repudiated factual claims. (My favorite is the “expert analysis” that allegedly calculated the “probability of former Vice President Biden winning the popular vote in the four Defendant States” as “less than one in a quadrillion, or 1 in 1,000,000,000,000,000.”)
It was a ridiculous gambit, but a shocking number of Republicans took it seriously enough to pledge their names. Trump whipped support, and within a day, 127 Republican House members, including House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, signed an amicus brief. Seventeen Republican state attorneys general, the chief law enforcers in their respective states, also signed on. Trump asked Texas Sen. Ted Cruz if he would argue the case before the Supreme Court. Cruz agreed.
Cruz never had to argue the case, though, because the Supreme Court, which by this point included three Trump appointees, refused to hear it. Yet Paxton’s suit still had a galvanizing effect. It put a convincing number of elected Republican elites on record with their willingness to reject millions of votes without any proven evidence of fraud.
3. Fake Federal Investigations
As Trump pressed his case in court, he simultaneously pushed government lawyers to launch investigations to lend some credibility to his charges. In an unsettling departure from Department of Justice precedent, Attorney General Bill Barr on November 9, 2020 gave federal prosecutors approval to investigate the president’s unfounded claims.
By the next month, Barr said nothing had been found, telling an Associated Press reporter that “we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome of the election.” Trump reportedly screamed at Barr for this, and soon the attorney general announced his resignation.
Around that time, Trump secretly met with Acting Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey B. Clark to discuss a plan for Republican state legislatures to launch their own investigations as a means to eventually overturn Biden’s win.
Why did Trump go through Clark instead of Jeffrey Rosen, the man who assumed Barr’s position when he left? Acting Attorney General Rosen wasn’t willing to play ball. Rosen later testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee about how he was pressured by Trump directly. Acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue submitted notes he took during one December 27, 2020 phone call between Rosen and the president. According to the notes, Rosen told Trump he must “understand that the DOJ can’t + won’t snap its fingers + change the outcome of the election, doesn’t work that way.”
“[I] don’t expect you to do that,” Trump is said to have answered, “just say that the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me and the R. Congressmen.”
More worrisome, Rosen also testified that Clark circulated a draft letter on December 28, 2020 he wanted Rosen to approve. It was to be delivered to Republican officials in Georgia, asking them to hold a special legislative session to investigate voter fraud. It said:
The Department of Justice is investigating various irregularities in the 2020 election for President of the United States. The Department will update you as we are able on investigatory progress, but at this time we have identified significant concerns that may have impacted the outcome of the election in multiple States, including the State of Georgia.
And:
While the Department of Justice believe[s] the Governor of Georgia should immediately call a special session to consider this important and urgent matter, if he declines to do so, we share with you our view that the Georgia General Assembly has implied authority under the Constitution of the United States to call itself into special session for [t]he limited purpose of considering issues pertaining to the appointment of Presidential Electors.
Rosen refused to sign the letter, and then, according to Rosen, Clark told him that Trump offered to make Clark attorney general. But Clark said that he would decline if Rosen would sign. On January 3, 2021, Clark told Rosen he would accept Trump’s offer to replace Rosen as acting attorney general. But Rosen quickly organized with others and threatened to resign if Trump did so. Clark’s plan then fell apart.
4. “Stop the Steal” Whips Up the Base
Initially centered on the lawsuits, activists waged a nationwide grassroots “Stop the Steal” advocacy campaign that embraced the conspiracy theories and pressured Republicans reluctant to go along with Trump’s schemes. It also attracted the more violent parts of Trump’s base and provided them several opportunities to recruit and train members twice in the nation’s capital before Jan. 6th.
They mobilized fast. Immediately after the election, protests demanding that election workers “Stop the Count” materialized in Michigan as Trump supporters sought to discount mail-in ballots that took longer to count and largely favored Biden. On November 14, 2020, thousands of Trump supporters rallied in Washington. The events descended into street violence that evening, leaving two officers injured.
A group called Women for America First embarked on a multi-week, twenty-city “March for Trump” bus tour to stoke anger and fear over the election nationwide.
Later that month, protesters began swarming outside the homes of state officials in Georgia and Michigan. Georgia elections official Gabriel Sterling warned: “Someone’s going to get hurt, someone’s going to get shot, someone’s going to get killed, and it’s not right.”
Thousands of pro-Trump protesters returned to Washington for a December 12 rally, just two days before the Electoral College would be assembling in state capitals across the country to certify the results of the November vote. Trump tweeted his encouragement:
The Washington Post reported: “In helmets and bulletproof vests, Proud Boys marched through downtown in militarylike rows, shouting ‘move out’ and ‘1776!’” They clashed with counterprotesters and at least four people were stabbed. The report continued: “D.C. police said that as of 9 p.m., 23 people were arrested Saturday, including 10 who were charged with misdemeanor assaults, six with assaulting police officers and four with rioting. Police said one person had an illegal Taser.”
Women for America First secured the permits for both the November and December protests that ended in violence. By the end of December, the same group was working to organize the Jan. 6th rally, which Trump promoted.
Meanwhile, the Georgia runoff election became another staging ground for “Stop the Steal” advocacy under the banner of helping Republicans win re-election. Trump made two trips to Georgia ostensibly to campaign for incumbent GOP senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, but in reality to continue to push his grievances about the election. In Valdosta on December 5, 2020 he told the crowd, “Let them steal Georgia again, you’ll never be able to look yourself in the mirror.”
That month, after losing so many court cases, Trump’s legal team shifted into public-relations mode. Trump adviser Bernard Kerik recently provided the House Jan. 6th Committee with a 22-page document titled “Strategic Communications Plan” that described how to “educate the public on the fraud numbers, and inspire citizens to call upon legislators and Members of Congress to disregard the fraudulent vote count and certify the duly-elected President Trump.”
The timeline for the plan to be carried out was Dec. 27th to Jan. 6th. The campaign’s targets were swing-state Republican senators in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, as well as House Republicans.
The memo asserted that “massive corruption in the election process led to a vote tally that is fraudulent” and contained a laundry list of allegations: underage and ineligible people voted, and votes were cast in the name of dead people. It mentioned “illegalities,” fraudulent ballots, mail-in ballot fraud, “Dominion machines fraud,” and “election officials’ illegal actions.”
The memo’s recommended messaging emphasized accusatory questions, such as “What do you elections officials have to hide?” and “Why are you defending this corruption?”
The memo also called for protests at the homes of members of Congress (among other public officials), something disturbing that had already happened and that the Trump team apparently wanted more of.
The pressure worked.
For example, Trump returned to Georgia for another rally on January 4, 2021, a day before the runoff. Standing alongside Trump on stage in Dalton, Kelly Loeffler said that she would oppose certifying Biden as president when Congress tallied Electoral College votes the next day.
5. Fake Electors and Objectors
On December 10, 2020, the Conservative Action Project, headed by Ken Blackwell, proposed a clear-cut way to flip the Biden votes to Trump. A memo detailing the proposal was signed by many well-known conservative leaders, including Al Regnery, Tony Perkins, Jim DeMint, and Brent Bozell.
Collectively, this group recommended that legislatures in the battleground states appoint new electors who would provide the Electoral College votes needed for Trump to be certified as president on Jan. 6th:
There is no doubt President Donald J. Trump is the lawful winner of the presidential election. Joe Biden is not president-elect.
Accordingly, state legislatures in the battleground states of Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, Nevada, and Michigan should exercise their plenary power under the Constitution and appoint clean slates of electors to the Electoral College to support President Trump. Similarly, both the House and Senate should accept only these clean Electoral College slates and object to and reject any competing slates in favor of Vice President Biden from these states.
The idea took hold. Trump flacks Stephen Miller and Kayleigh McEnany confirmed the strategy and pushed it on the airwaves.
State legislatures did not take up the idea to appoint new electors, but rogue groups of Republicans in seven states created phony electoral certificates to that effect and sent them to Congress. In two of the states, the phony elector certificates included a caveat saying that the ballots would only take effect if Trump won those states. Not so in the the other five states, as Philip Rotner pointed out this week:
The phony Trump electors from each of the other five states—Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada and Wisconsin—certified that they were in fact the “duly elected and qualified Electors for President and Vice President of the United States of America” from their respective states.
These phony certificates supposedly from competing slates of electors were not a sideshow, an irrelevant gimmick. They were key to the coup plan, forming the basis of the law professor John Eastman’s infamous memo, first obtained by Robert Costa and Bob Woodwood for their book Peril. The short version of the Eastman memo outlined a six-step “January 6 scenario” to overturn the election, starting with the assertion that “7 states have transmitted dual slates of electors to the President of the Senate.” Eastman envisioned Vice President Pence making an announcement on Jan. 6th that “because of the ongoing disputes in the 7 States, there are no electors that can be deemed validly appointed in those States.” The long version of the Eastman memo is similarly dependent on the fraudulent electoral slates.
Looking to the courts to assist on this point, Rep. Louie Gohmert and a slate of fake electors from Arizona filed a suit in late December 2020 that asked for Pence to be given “exclusive authority and sole discretion under the Twelfth Amendment to determine which slates of electors for a State, or neither, may be counted.” The district court tossed out Gohmert’s suit.
But Trump still wanted Pence to act. In Oval Office meetings on Jan. 4 and 5, 2021, he tried to foist Eastman’s idea on Pence. In a Jan. 6 tweet, Trump called on Pence to show “extreme courage.” And in his speech at the Ellipse on Jan. 6, he made his expectations of the vice president crystal clear. In addition to encouraging the crowd to “fight like hell,” Trump said:
I hope Mike is going to do the right thing. I hope so. I hope so.
Because if Mike Pence does the right thing, we win the election. All he has to do, all this is, this is from the number one, or certainly one of the top, Constitutional lawyers in our country. He has the absolute right to do it. We’re supposed to protect our country, support our country, support our Constitution, and protect our constitution.
States want to revote. The states got defrauded, They were given false information. They voted on it. Now they want to recertify. They want it back. All Vice President Pence has to do is send it back to the states to recertify and we become president and you are the happiest people.
And I actually, I just spoke to Mike. I said: “Mike, that doesn’t take courage. What takes courage is to do nothing. That takes courage.” And then we’re stuck with a president who lost the election by a lot and we have to live with that for four more years. We’re just not going to let that happen.
Pence didn’t go through with it.
Ultimately, on Jan. 6th some 147 Republican senators and representatives—more than half of the Republicans in Congress—joined in objecting to the final certification of the Arizona and Pennsylvania electoral slates. Trump adviser Peter Navarro bragged about having provided ”research” to members to back up their objections. Donald Trump approved; he ordered Navarro’s reports to be issued to House and Senate offices.
6. Pressure on State and Local Officials
Trump also worked furiously behind the scenes to get state and local Republicans to do his bidding.
In mid-November 2020, he phoned two members of a local canvassing board in Detroit, Michigan after they rescinded their votes to certify the election. Elated, Trump’s legal adviser Jenna Ellis tweeted:
BREAKING: This evening, the county board of canvassers in Wayne County, MI refused to certify the election results. If the state board follows suit, the Republican state legislator will select the electors. Huge win for @realDonaldTrump
This was one of the first public indications that Team Trump was thinking about using state legislators to select alternate slates of electors.
Ahead of Michigan’s deadline to certify the election, Trump invited a group of Michigan Republican lawmakers to the White House. A meeting was held, but afterward the lawmakers said they were committed to letting the certification process play out.
Trump’s main focus, however, was on Georgia.
On December 23, 2020, Trump called Georgia’s lead elections investigator, Frances Watson, and encouraged her to find the “dishonesty” in Cobb County’s mail-in ballot signatures audit. “The people of Georgia are so angry at what happened to me,” he told her. “They know I won, won by hundreds of thousands of votes. It wasn’t close.”
He then called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on January 2, 2021 and was far more aggressive. During the one-hour call, Trump demanded that Raffensperger “recalculate” the vote totals and “find” enough votes to award him the win in Georgia.
“All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. Because we won the state,” Trump said.
And that’s just what happened during the calls that were leaked.
Many questions, both big and small, about the Trump coup remain unanswered—including questions about how much (if any) of the mob violence at the Capitol was anticipated by Trump’s advisers; who (if anyone) coordinated the efforts of the Republicans who submitted fraudulent Electoral College certificates; and why it took more than three hours for the Capitol to be secured.
But enough is known already that we can say this: Although Trump wasn’t successful in overturning the election, his schemes captured the hearts and minds of the Republican base, many members of the Republican elite, conservative media, and fringe militia groups alike. Those groups worked in concert toward an end goal of rejecting Electoral College votes on Jan 6th.
Hardly anyone could have predicted that after the election was called for Biden, such a sweeping GOP machine would insist that Trump won and work to make the fantasy come true. Especially after each state met to certify their elections on December 14, 2020. What should have been a moment to make a firm break from Trump, to repudiate the defeated president, instead became a reason to unite behind his losing cause.
Don’t think they won’t try again.
Demented fascist like Scott are trying to try it again.
Republicans are suddenly crying “socialism!” and eagerly blaming Biden for the spike in prices, but let’s be fair. While the government has been pumping money into the economy at a record clip over the past 14 years, most of that has been the work of the Federal Reserve, and President Donald Trump was the most vociferous proponent of easy money we’ve ever seen.
Milton Friedman taught that “Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.” Since the financial crisis of 2008, the Federal Reserve has been shoveling money out the door with pitchforks, and in the wake of COVID, both the central bank and the federal government have been “dropping money from helicopters,” to use the image also coined by Friedman.
Many economists believe the Fed was right to do this as a response to the financial crisis of 2008. The controversy arises about when it was time to stop. Certainly, by the advent of the Trump administration, when growth was steady and unemployment low, the prudent course would have been to scale back the money geyser, and that’s what the Fed started to do. But that’s not what the Trump-led GOP favored.
Trump’s money gusher began in 2017 with the $1.9 trillion tax cut that wasn’t matched with any spending cuts. The GOP didn’t sniff out socialism then, despite estimates that the Trump tax cuts increased the deficit by $3.9 trillion.
According to the indictment, Rhodes purchased tens of thousands of dollars worth of firearms, ammunition, and rifle scopes before and after January 6, making him by far the greatest threat of all the Oath Keepers. It’s unlikely investigators just recently discovered these purchases. So why was he a free man for the past 12 months, charged seemingly in response to aggressive questioning in Congress that threatened to upend the liberal insurrection narrative?
Something doesn’t add up.????????
Is it still likely Rhodes worked in some capacity as an informant? Yes. Is the government announcing these bombshell charges now to deflect mounting suspicions that the FBI and other agencies used numerous informants and agents to instigate violence on January 6? Yes. Will these new charges succeed in delaying the first trial in the Oath Keepers case, set for April? Yes.
What they will not do is serve to establish in court that anything like an insurrection took place on January 6. Instead, step by step, this carefully crafted narrative will crumble, eventually taking with it the last shreds of credibility for the Democrats, the Justice Department, and the liberal press.
Skipped right past all that shit Roger just posted. I don't know why he does that.
Myballs I did the same.
Anonymous Myballs said...
Skipped right past all that shit Roger just posted. I don't know why he does that.
I do. He's mentally ill, trapped in a tiny box with another person who's mentally ill.*
*A layman's interpretation of Occam's Razor - the simplest explanation is usually the correct one.
Shocking Scotland Covid Report: Unvaccinated Case Rates Vs. Double-Vaccinated Hospital Admissions
Shocking that LIl Schitty would fall for another pile of propaganda without consideration that cases and hospitalzations have plummeted there!!!!! Sorry sport. you truly have turned into a trump loser!!!!
pped in a tiny box with another person who's mentally ill.*
BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! Yep, a trump slurper commenting on others travails without looking in the mirror....What a fucking joke you are!!!!!!
Damn RIP Meatloaf
That is a real loss.
Joe has failed Americans.
"By the numbers: The U.S. is now averaging just under 1,900 deaths per day — a 42% increase over the past two weeks."
Blogger KansasDemocrat said...
Joe has failed Americans.
"By the numbers: The U.S. is now averaging just under 1,900 deaths per day — a 42%
Almost all being unvaccinated because of dumb fucks like you!!!!!!
And you have failed in every fucking thing you did!!!!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! Thanx to donnie and you supporting him!!!!!
Hi Denny, hope you are well.
Goat fucker....I hope you are not!!!!!!!
The facts remain the same.
Denny gets all emotional when defending Roger.
I just use what Roger has told us against him.
Such as this gem.
Trump "growth was steady and unemployment low"
The facts remain the same.
Denny gets all emotional when defending Roger.
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! And you get all stupid trying to make a point!!!!!! Why are people dying from covid because they don't have the shot???? Is it they are just as stupid as you not taking it??????
Raw meaningless Emotional Denny.
Well, have A good day , try not to be so angry.
Initial jobless claims (regular state program)Jan. 15. 286,000
Bidenomics Build Back Broker policies continue.
Raw gibberish and inane goat fucker still unemployed!!!!.....BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
Disclose.tv
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1484157382674497539
NEW - Peter Doshi, a senior editor of the BMJ – one of the world's oldest general medical journals – calls for the full and immediate release of all data related to COVID vaccines and treatments.
https://www.bmj.com/content/376/bmj.o102
Hiding data is not science
nor is not looking at vaccine side effects
Why wasn't Fauci demanding this ?
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!
He might finally realize that he is The President of the United States, instead of being Senator, and will use the bully pulpit to save America from this Republican party of King Donald Trump.
New York Times: “Mr. Biden will retreat from the tangle of day-to-day negotiations with members of his own party that have made him seem powerless to advance key priorities, according to senior White House advisers. The change is part of an intentional reset in how he spends his time, aimed at emphasizing his power to govern as president, rather than getting trapped in a series of congressional battles.”
“Four internal strategy memos drafted by White House advisers this week lay out the shift ahead of Mr. Biden’s first State of the Union address to Congress on March 1: The president will ramp up his attacks on Republicans ahead of the midterm election campaigns to help Democratic candidates. He will travel the nation more and engage with voters. And he will focus more on what he has already accomplished than on legislative victories he hopes to achieve.”
“The president is also planning to use his executive power to help former inmates return to society and reform police departments, after legislation on the latter issue failed to pass last year.”
Scott Morefield
VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/SKMorefield/status/1483649674615697409
Johns Hopkins' Dr. Marty Makary: "There's actually broad consensus now by public health officials acknowledging privately, & they're starting to say so publicly, that cloth masks have almost no impact on transmission whatsoever, and we basically have known that the entire time."
masking unmasked
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/20/us/politics/president-biden-senate-house.html?referringSource=articleShare
IM
GRAPH:
https://twitter.com/ianmSC/status/1484225811561336834
Cases in Germany are now more than 5x higher than on October 26th when The Atlantic said vaccine passports & N95’s were helping them “beat” COVID
The good news is that after seeing the demonstrable failure of N95’s, the US is distributing 400 million of them to not work here too
We are being led by idiots
who are blindly being followed by assisted living patients like roger
and other idiots
it's a parade of idiots
ROFLMFAO !!!
Marty Makary MD, MPH
https://twitter.com/MartyMakary/status/1484021473006268417
The CDC's problem is not "messaging". Its bad policy. Ignoring nat imm, not releasing data, pushing boosters on healthy kids, quarantining low-risk immune students, closing schools last yr & using flawed Maricopa mask study are not messaging problems. They're flawed data problems
and following the funder of Covid origination and response, Fauci
Prior Covid-19 Infection Offered Better Protection Than Vaccination During Delta Wave
CDC says research from California and New York before Omicron’s spread showed unvaccinated people without previous infection faced greatest risk
https://www.wsj.com/articles/prior-covid-19-infection-offered-better-protection-than-vaccination-during-delta-wave-11642619009?mod=mhp
All CDC announcements are suspect but this flies into the face of ignoring anti-bodies as Fauci has done during this entire pandemic
How to become a fascist. Listen to what I post.
Former White House Advisor Peter Navarro didn’t mince words when he stated that vaccinating children, is “abuse at a minimum and murder in some cases.”
Be an influencer
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Millions of patriot influencers are just as important (maybe even more so) than celebrity opinion hosts, podcasters, or columnists. Whether it’s thought-provoking remarks at family gatherings, a quick comment standing on the supermarket checkout line, writing letters to the editor, or posting on social media, you can be the person who influences others.
For me, it’s gratifying that my regular American Thinker columns and weekly Patriot Neighbors newsletter lets others know they aren’t alone in their MAGA views and offers information on MAGA events.
Yes, it’s overwhelming at times with the left-leaning media pushing the White House Marxist narrative. I also get pushback from Republican establishment organizations when taking opposing positions, such as not going along with the insanity that a biological man can be a woman. But for the United States to survive as a free republic, patriots must not be afraid to speak up even if it means losing “friends.” In the process, we gain new ones who firmly stand for Judeo-Christian patriotic values.
As Dale Carnegie once said, “Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.” I dare all patriots to influence others!
Seig Heil Mr Trump
Joe Biden has been president for a year, and he has sucked beyond all comprehension. He is quite possibly the worst president ever.
Is this going to be a biased, partisan post? Why yes. Because the democrats elected a corrupt dipshit, who has just gotten more pathetic with age. Biden sucks so bad that he is going to drag your entire political party down, and the mid terms are shaping up to be a bloodbath the likes of which American politics haven’t seen in any of our lifetimes. All that demographic inevitability you’ve been crowing about since Obama? Evaporated.
Democrat congressmen are retiring in droves because they see better polling data than we do, and in the polls the public can see, Biden is the kiss of death. Nobody can deny the stink of failure.
So just own it, and shut the fuck up. Spare us the inane comments about Orange Man Bad. Sure. But Bad Touch Grandpa Worse.
Way fucking worse.
Biden has accomplished exactly one thing. And that’s demonstrating beyond a shadow of a doubt to all reasonable, thinking Americans that democrats are total shit at governing. They talk a big game, but it’s all just platitudes, wishful thinking, and magic unicorns farting free shit. Their claimed philosophy is childlike and disintegrates when it touches reality, exposing their actual philosophy, which is draconian control freaks who are compelled to meddle in everything. And the less they understand something, the more they feel the need to fuck with it.
Even with big tech and the media doing everything in their power to cover for Biden’s multitude of failures, it’s so bad that the most technologically advanced propaganda engine in human history simply can’t keep up.
https://monsterhunternation.com/2022/01/20/the-one-year-anniversary-of-utter-failure/
Roger Amick said...
How to become a fascist. Listen to what I post.
Recognizing you are a fascist is a good first step roger
Anyone who visits this site already recognized that you were
but demanding that others listen to what you post is fascist
guess it's a hard habit to break
* and it's hard to "listen" to a post without audio
is it playing in your head ?
ROFMLFAO !!!
Roger, said.
"Trump "growth was steady and unemployment low"
IF only Bidenomics Build Back Broker policies could deliver, both.
The many voices in Alky's drug laden head.
"Listen to what I post."
Exactly Correct
James's Fucking DaddyJanuary 21, 2022 at 8:44 AM
* and it's hard to "listen" to a post without audio
is it playing in your head ?
ROFMLFAO !"
Trump and His Children on the Defensive
January 21, 2022 at 9:30 am EST By Taegan Goddard 24 Comments
“A flurry of decisions by the Supreme Court and federal and state investigators have forced Donald Trump and his adult children to defend their conduct on multiple fronts, potentially jeopardizing their futures — or perhaps yet again allowing the former president to escape unscathed,” the Washington Post reports.
Daily Beast: “Ivanka Trump has largely avoided the national spotlight for the last year. Now, investigators in two separate probes think she could be key to her father’s undoing.”
Ron DeSantis Knows the Formula to Defeat Trump
January 21, 2022 at 9:15 am EST By Taegan Goddard 56 Comments
Rich Lowry: “After Trump’s presidency, the party is more populist, focused on the culture war, resistant to media narratives and skeptical of business — and it would remain so if Trump retired tomorrow and promised never to utter another word about politics.”
“Although in many ways an orthodox conservative, DeSantis covers all these bases. Importantly, he’s a lightning rod for criticism from the left — now a major plus for Republican voters — and gives as good as he gets in clashes with the media. There are few causes that light up the Republican base that he doesn’t find a way to address, whether on big tech or critical race theory, and he has emerged as the party’s exemplar on the pandemic, with his strenuous opposition to lockdowns and mandates. This gives him credibility with Trump voters and the foundation to compete with Trump, not as a critic or scold, but as someone who can do it better and, in a few instances, perhaps go further.”
“In fact, it is likely that the most successful line of attack against a potential candidate Trump will prove, one way or the other, to come from the right.”
Michael Flynn Allies Sought Dirt on GOP Lawmakers
January 21, 2022 at 8:17 am EST By Taegan Goddard 81 Comments
FBI agents and the House panel investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol have both learned of an alleged plan by allies of retired army Lt Gen Michael Flynn to gather “intelligence” on top Republicans to “move” them to back election audits in key states Trump lost, The Guardian reports.
How Biden Can Save the Democrats In November
January 21, 2022 at 8:10 am EST By Taegan Goddard 57 Comments
Harry Enten: “Ultimately, the one thing that can probably save the Democrats in November is if Biden’s approval rating improves. That’s certainly possible. However, it is unlikely. No president has seen a double-digit improvement in his net approval rating from now until his first midterm like Biden would need to have a positive net approval rating.”
“That said, no president in the polling era has had to deal with a global health crisis like the coronavirus this early in his first term, either. It’s plausible that the old historical rules won’t apply.”
Where's Hunter ?
and the "justice" department ?
we all know where the POS "pastor's" GODdard is
but he considers copying from that blog a "contribution"
ROFLMFAO !!!
Trump Friends Concerned About His Pick of Lawyer
January 20, 2022 at 11:41 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 201 Comments
Close associates and advisers to Donald Trump told Axios they’re concerned “by his decision to use a relatively inexperienced New Jersey attorney, Alina Habba, in his high-stakes legal fight against New York Attorney General Letitia James.”
“A former president typically has access to the country’s most prestigious experts, including lawyers. Trump has turned to the former general counsel for a parking garage company, who works from a small law office near his Bedminster, N.J., country club.”
Giuliani Oversaw Fake Electors Plot In 7 States
January 20, 2022 at 6:23 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 322 Comments
Officials on Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign, led by his lawyer Rudy Giuliani, oversaw efforts to put forward illegitimate electors from seven states that the former president lost, CNN reports.
BEARS REPEATING
Republicans More Likely to Get Covid
January 20, 2022 at 6:02 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 84 Comments
A new Economist-YouGov poll finds Republicans are significantly more likely to report having contracted the Covid-19 than are Democrats.
“That’s been the case for a while. The three-week average of responses to the question showed more reported positive tests among Republicans back in the fall of 2020. In recent weeks, though, the gap has widened.”
Breaking news WSJ reports
U.S., Russia Agree to Keep Negotiating to Defuse Ukraine Crisis!
John Kennedy
VIDEO:
https://mobile.twitter.com/SenJohnKennedy/status/1483595496837025793
There’s a whiff of extremism in the air.
Democrats’ effort to get rid of the 60-vote threshold isn’t about a Senate that doesn’t work.
It’s about a woke agenda that doesn’t sell.
No one is buying what Biden and the dems are selling
except the ELEVEN percenters
Biden's experience helps us avoid a war.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the U.S. would formally address the Kremlin’s claims that Western powers threaten Russian security, as both sides agreed to continue talks on how to avert a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Russia has massed about 100,000 troops near Ukraine in response to what it says are threats to its security from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and Western powers. The move has created one of the worst crises between Russia and the West since the Cold War, with many fearing Russia will invade its smaller neighbor.
The Kremlin has blamed NATO for endangering its security and requested a written response to its demands that the alliance stop accepting new members and reduce its force posture in Eastern Europe.
While U.S. and Western officials have rejected those demands, Mr. Blinken agreed to respond in detail to Russia’s concerns and provide written proposals for reciprocal moves to improve security in the region.
“We will share with Russia a response to the concerns that it’s raised, our own concerns, and put some ideas on the table for consideration, and then we plan to meet again after Russia’s had the opportunity to look at that paper,” Mr. Blinken told reporters after meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. “And we’ll see where we go from there.”
Still, Mr. Blinken warned Mr. Lavrov that any moves against Ukraine would trigger financial sanctions or other measures.
“We are doing everything possible to make clear to Russia that there will be, as I said, a swift, severe and united response to any form of aggression by Russia directed toward Ukraine,” Mr. Blinken said.
In remarks after the meeting in Geneva, Mr. Lavrov suggested that Russia had won a small victory in convincing the U.S. to agree to provide written responses on security proposals the Kremlin presented to Washington last month.
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Putin wants to rebuild the Soviet Union empire, but we will prevail, financially.
U.S., Russia Agree to Keep Negotiating to Defuse Ukraine Crisis https://www.wsj.com/articles/blinken-to-meet-russias-foreign-minister-amid-ukraine-border-crisis-11642752344
It's ongoing, but at least no war yet.
Biden approves the completion of Putin Pipelines to Europe.
Fuels flow to Europe <--> Money Flows to Putin.
RRH Elections
https://mobile.twitter.com/RRHElections/status/1484178490895343616
Over 458,000 Americans have died from #COVID19 since January 20, 2021.
actually it's WITH Covid but the CDC hasn't changed how it collects and distributes data
yet
and apparently the POS "pastor" thinks they are mostly Republicans
though I did see that in San Fransisco (a fairly liberal city and taking extreme measures) a overwhelming percentage of those hospitalized with Covid were now vaccinated.
odd, and not widely reported
wonder why
Bidenomics Build Back Broker policies failures mounting up like Firewood.
"
Existing home sales (SAAR)Dec.6.18 million"
unExpectedly dropped and missed expectations.
It's ongoing, but at least no war yet.
Why is Biden so concerned with the Ukraine border but not the US border ?
odd
I thought he was the US president ?
Well at least he hasn't started a war there yet
though he appears itching to
Roger do you "listen" to the posts on this blog?
🔊
btw It's odd that people who receive jabs and boosters are not considered "vaccinated" until 2 weeks after said jabs
imagine the data if those were considered vaccinated and results of the vaccination effects were tallied from day one of the jab...
Where's Fauci on all this ?
"science"
and another brutal day for the stock market
January has historically been a great indicator for how the year will go and it looks like this year is going to suck
Big Time
U.S., Russia Agree to Keep Negotiating to Defuse Ukraine Crisis!
The clean up in aisle 46 has been fucking EPIC thanks to the installation of the dumbest and worst president in American history.
It will now be considered to be a stroke of diplomatic brilliance to fix a galactic Biden FUCK-UP.
rrb said...
U.S., Russia Agree to Keep Negotiating to Defuse Ukraine Crisis!
What's amazing is that Joe hasn't even gotten around to nominating an ambassador to Ukraine yet
Guess he was too busy with all his "accomplishments"
But you would think that should have been near the top of his list
Well maybe those lists were just made for his annual "press conference"
Tim Young
https://twitter.com/TimRunsHisMouth/status/1484163090971250692
Fun Fact: Robert Reich, the leftist who advocates for violence against women... is only 4'11"!
roger sure looks up to him
regularly
Joe "overdelivered" on first time unemployment filings.
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