The basis of this entire crisis is that Republicans are still so upset they got caught in massive amounts of criminal misconduct between 2016-2020 they will do and say anything to smear everyone else with the same accusations that led to their own tarnished reputations.

Michael Cohen, former RNC Fundraising Chair: convicted felon.

Elliot Broidy, former RNC Fundraising Chair: convicted felon.

Roger Stone, former RNC and Trump Advisor: convicted felon.

Paul Manafort, former Republican campaign manager: convicted felon.

Protesters have breached the Capitol. They’re outside the Senate chamber

This is happening

Police officers are holding them steps away from the Senate chamber, which is locked. Senators are inside. I see a few confederate flags.

Some sort of gas has been set off. I’m not sure by whom. Police seem to be trying to deescalate and talk to them.

“If we don’t get justice, this will never stop,” one protester yells

I count about 10 protesters by the Ohio Clock

1/Listen up, Patriots. This is not the time for the faint of heart. Stop the hand wringing. You disrespect our President but, more importantly, all the young men who have fought and died for us. They did not face the enemy with a heart filled with fear.

President-elect Biden’s Thanksgiving address was an important moment in the rhetorical and moral life of the nation. The remarks themselves were well-constructed, graceful and serious of purpose – an act of responsible governance even before taking the oath. 1/

The president-elect’s speech also contrasted starkly with a president on a descending path of cynicism, destructiveness, desperation and self-delusion. We always knew it could come to this: A direct attack on the functioning and legitimacy of American democracy. 2/

The coup has already occurred in Trump’s mind. Can there be any doubt he would keep power by overturning a legitimate election? Can there be any question he would snuff out the democratic voice of the nation if he could? He is incompetent. But can we doubt his intention? 3/

It is the interpretive key to Trump: He is anti-American. He has no respect for the country’s institutions or values. He is ignorant of the nation’s story, dismissive of its conventions and unmoved by its romance. 4/

Trump sees politics the way a Machiavellian would in any country – as the pursuit of power, not the stewardship of certain truths. 5/

Trump came to my beloved Omaha. Omaha is a purple city. Trump bussed in a ton of peeps who waited in unseasonably cold weather for him to arrive. After he was done speaking, he left the peeps in the cold FOR HOURS without busses.

Hypothermic people without masks everywhere.

OPD stuck with the mess. We are knee deep in COVID here. Many people had to be taken to the hospital for treatment because of hypothermia.

How do we calculate the toll for this idiocy? This event may turn out to be a huge miscalculation on his part one week from the election.

Trump buses people in and then abandons them at an airport in freezing weather before flying off to another super spreader event.

The event at TAC air is on the opposite side of where the parking is. It took hours to clean up Trump’s mess during a pandemic on a freezing night.

Last night in Omaha is a perfect example of who Trump is and the way that he governs. He just keeps finding new lows. How many of those people that ended up going to the hospital last night either became infected or caused infections on their way to and from the hospital?

I hope the good people of Omaha see who @RepDonBacon and Trump are and rebuke them up when they vote. If what happened last night in Omaha is a tipping point, @KaraEastman and @JoeBiden should have a good night on 11/3/20.

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I may not be all that old, but I’m old enough to remember a time when politicians weren’t self absorbed bags of shit.
I’m old enough to remember how everyone came together in the wake of a tragedy that killed Americans.
A time before we had the internet widely available

In the days after 9/11 I was 16 years old in the NY Metro area. We watched our communities come together to lift up America.
We were proud to be American.
We were survivors in the face of terrorism. We buried loved ones and attended memorial after memorial for the 2,977 souls.

Nobody discounted any loss. Each was just as tragic as the next. From the people on the planes to those who gave their lives trying to rescue people from those buildings.
We were one people. We were American people.
We weren’t Republicans or Democrats we were AMERICANS.

In the years that followed, peoples dedication faded and life went back to a place of being semi-normal. But I never lost that pride of being an American.
My grandmother immigrated to America during WWII as a refugee from Poland.
She fled for the American dream.

When Barack Obama ran, I not only campaigned for him, but I voted for him. Twice, once in 2008 and again in 2012. I felt proud to have a successful black man breaking history for all of the little boys and girls that would look up to him.
But this is where it started.

I’m just going to post this response to someone saying they don’t think I can see through the forest.
I lived in the fucking forest. I was and continue to live in the weeds.... I feel it is so important to put forth as much truth as I legally can:

You still fail to provide your reasons for voting FOR Biden, not for NOT Voting for Trump. I’m extremely capable of seeing through the forest as I worked in it for 16 years. Sorry you don’t know what I know right now. But you soon will.

If not revealed by Durham, some will actually come out in my case as we move forward finally after 8+ years.

Those characters in the FBI who did extremely illegal and unethical activities were my peers, unfortunately.

So, unfortunately, I have had the “honor” of knowing a bit more than I really think I was ready to know. I have actually had to take breaks from the information that will rock the core of this nation. Totally way bigger than Watergate. It actually hurts to say that.

I don’t know if the Bu can survive but I pray that it does. I am more than willing to assist in any way. But this may shake Americans, who are & are in not believing the magnitude of the situation, so much that I’m not sure the American people will be supportive of just reform.

Yesterday afternoon Georgia’s Senate panel hosted Rudy Giuliani for an evidential hearing regarding voter fraud in Georgia. The fake news won’t report the facts so it is up to us. Here were my key takeaways from the session.

The biggest piece of evidence was video footage that showed several suitcases being rolled out from under a table after poll watchers and media were told that vote counting was over and asked to leave. Clear evidence of significant fraud.

A Professor of Constitutional Law and member of 11th Circuit and Supreme Court Bar spoke about a lower than normal mail-in rejection rate of 0.33% in this election versus 6.4% in the 2016 election despite having twice the number of mail-in ballots.

Normalizing for this, 40k votes were counted that shouldn’t have been. More critical perhaps, was the view that the consent decree signed by Georgia’s Secretary of State violates the statutory scheme and permits the legislature to invalidate the entire election.

A change to the underage registration window to allow 16 yr olds to register 6 months earlier than normal also violates the constitution and allows the legislature to step in. Some 66k underage votes were counted in this election that shouldn’t have been counted under state law.

I'm not seeing much discussion of the massive damage that's been done to the Democratic Party.

The Democrats I know are cops, farmers, teachers; families who love America & their neighbors. They love the DP they knew from the past.

But the party has been wholesale hijacked.

The Clintons bear much of the blame for destroying the DP, but not all of it. The DP has sold out to multinational corporations, and allowed itself to be infiltrated by America-hating Marxists and other extremist splinter groups, while pandering for votes.

That's why Dems like Pelosi, Biden, Feinstein, Nadler, Tom Perez, Donna Brazile seem so hog-tied most of the time

Trump has been a GIFT to them, because they can focus all their public attention on him, and not on the deep divisions & fatal fractures in their party.

For example, they've embraced Antifa & BLM activists thinking that this will pull more voters to the DP, unified by their loathing of Trump.

The DP thinks it can "turn off" these protests like a spigot if/when they win the WH and Congress.

They're wrong.

Just like their embrace of the Squad: AOC, Tlaib, Pressly and Omar, those decisions are going to come back to bite them.

The Democratic Party has now taken the Marxists, anarchists and their poisonous ideologies right into the heart of the party, and it's going to kill them.

News Analysis🔎The post-#Election push to pressure President Trump to concede, despite numerous credible allegations of #VoterFraud and ongoing legal challenges, is the culmination of a 4-year-long campaign against him. (Thread👇)

This campaign started in 2016 when the #FBI launched a politically motivated investigation of his campaign. During his subsequent 4 years in office, there have been consistent efforts to remove him from office.

#Infographic: an overview of some of the main efforts made against the sitting @POTUS.

This is an issue that transcends party lines, as it is not only an assault on Trump, but an assault on the office of the presidency, and with it, an assault on the foundation of America.

Politically Motivated Investigation:
The #FBI under President #Obama in 2016 launched a politically motivated investigation of the #TrumpCampaign.

Based on publicly available information, we know the investigation was initiated based on the thinnest of evidence: remarks made…

…by a junior #TrumpCampaign adviser to the Australian ambassador in London.

The investigation primarily relied on the discredited #SteeleDossier, produced by former MI6 agent Christopher Steele on behalf of the #Clinton campaign and the @DNC.

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In light of tomorrow's congressional session to record the electoral votes, and for conservatives and Republicans who claim to look for guidance to the Founders, a short thread from Federalist #68.

2. "It was desirable that the sense of the people should operate in the choice of the person to whom so important a trust was to be confided. This end will be answered by committing the right of making it, not to any pre-established body...

3. "...but to men chosen by the people for the special purpose, and at the particular conjuncture...It was also peculiarly desirable to afford as little opportunity as possible to tumult and disorder...But the precautions which have been so happily concerted...

4. "...in the system under consideration promise an effectual security against this mischief...As the electors, chosen in each state, are to assemble and vote in the state in which they are chosen, this detached and divided situation will expose them much less...

5. "...to heats and ferments, which might be communicated from them to the people, than if they were all to be convened at one time, in one place. Nothing was more to be desired than that every practicable obstacle should be opposed to cabal, intrigue, and corruption...

Our latest YouGov/The Economist poll has a host of troubling findings about public confidence in the election.

Most shocking is that 86% of Trump voters say that Biden "did not legitimately win the election." 73% say that we'll "never know the real outcome of this election."

We also see the usual patterns in attitudes about mail-in voting and fraud. 88% of Trump voters say they believe that "illegal immigrants voted fraudulently in 2016 and tried again in 2020," for ex, and 90% believed that "mail ballots are being manipulated to favor Joe Biden."

Republicans are also exhibiting some... concerning... attitudes about the franchise, with 46% saying that "some people are not smart enough to vote" (27% among Dems) and 43% saying that people should have to pass a test before voting (15% for Dems).

89% of Trump voters think he should contest the outcome of the election in court, and 62% of his voters think it will change the outcome.

Fewer than half of Americans expect there will be a peaceful transition of power to a Biden presidency.

More here:

Decode Thread No 2 - CONT
October 31st 2020
Remember this morning when General Flynn tweeted
" American Dream"
@ 7:03 AM
And today that is the THEME of Trump's speech.
" The American Dream"
5:5 Confirmed!!