Lobby day thread Richmond, VA

Some boogaloo boys talk to reporters.

-Boogaloo boys are an extremist movement born online

-They think the internal contradictions of the country will eventually lead to a collapse,

-some of them want to “accelerate” that process and kick off the “boog”(civil war)

A handful of Proud boys are here. One is hawking t-shirts

While many of the MAGA groups didn’t show up to state capitols this weekend, boogaloo boys across the country did, albeit in small numbers.

For context: I count 92 journalists

Most recent T&T data now out, covers 4th - 10th Feb

LFD use continues to rise but more slowly than last week and T&T performance remains consistent.

And as ever we don't know about who isn't tested and who struggles to isolate.

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https://t.co/lffa72M9YJ

The number of people being tested each week remains high at around 3m, but this is due to increasing use of rapid lateral flow devices as PCR test use falls.

The number of LFDs used has increased five-fold since the start of Jan, and 35% in the past two weeks (although noticeable slowdown this most recent week).

By contrast, PCR test use for people with symptoms fallen week on week for the past month (PHE positivity data due later).

LFDs are generally used by people without symptoms to find cases that might otherwise unknowingly transmit disease. Current use focuses in places like schools, health and care, some workplaces, and community testing sites run by local gov for people who can't work from home.

There's definite variation in their use across the country (but note chart isn't pop adjusted) and as mentioned last week, will need to keep close eye on how use varies, particularly among more vulnerable and deprived groups.

Need to mitigate any unintended harm, esp around jobs

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Is this the next part of the script?

We have 9 -12 months before #TheGreatReset script leads to Boris Johnson's new public announcement, something along these lines:

#Covid19 #TheGreatReset #Coronavirus #Lockdown
@JuliaHB1 @NeilClark66 @ClarkeMicah @JamesMelville

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Boris Johnson, address to the nation 1st Jan 2022.

"We have all sacrificed so much to save lives & protect the NHS. You have done everything possible to protect your families & we, your government have likewise spent unimaginable amounts supporting you & your loved ones."

3/24

"Individually and together as a nation, we have paid a huge price for this.

Despite doing everything possible to provide support, millions have lost incomes, businesses and livelihoods; as a country, we are in debt that can never be repaid."

4/24

"When balancing saving lives or saving money, the decision was simple, we had to spend whatever it took.

We have borrowed from IMF, from friends, issued & sold bonds, & just like pawning family silver, we have sold large volumes of our assets & infrastructure."

5/24
"Our economy lies in ruins & we have reached the limits of our borrowing capacity.
We must however keep paying the UC& Universal Basic Income on which so many of us now depend. Without this, suffering will be unimaginable, the potential loss of life, too big to comprehend."

Spectator thread: Among the Scottish parliament’s many crucial roles, there is none more important than its ability to scrutinise government and hold it to account. The same is true of a free press. Both are at their best when they hold power to account on behalf of the public.

But neither can do this essential duty when crucial documents are withheld during important inquiries. The Holyrood inquiry into the Scottish Gov’s handling of the Alex Salmond affair decided last week that it would not publish crucial submissions, including Mr Salmond’s ....

... apparently because it would contravene reporting restrictions rightly introduced to protect the identity of complainants.
We have published a duly redacted version of Alex Salmond’s account on our website.

We felt that an overly-cautious interpretation of the court order by the committee was frustrating the due process of parliamentary inquiry — and the freedom of the press to publish matters of public interest and importance.

We were aware that the court never intended to obstruct parliamentary or public scrutiny; but because of how the committee had interpreted the issue, we today sought clarification from the High Court in Edinburgh.

"National Security Directive-1" What the hell? A short

Listen, there has been a simple pattern for my entire lifetime. When Nixon and Ford issued presidential directives, they we called National Security Decision Memoranda or NSDMs.

When Carter took office, he renamed those documents "Presidential Directives." This kicked off a process in which Republican and Democratic Presidents used different naming conventions for presidential directives. It was childish, sure. But so what?

Republicans always started with "National Security." So, naturally Reagan changed it back:
National Security Decision Directives (Reagan)
National Security Directives (GHW Bush)
National Security Presidential Directives (GW Bush)
National Security Presidential Memoranda (Trump)

Democrats, by contrast, never ever used "National Security."
Presidential Directives (Carter)
Presidential Decision Directives (Clinton)
Presidential Policy Directives (Obama)

This video captures #PinkHatLady #BullHornLady BEFORE she grabs the bullhorn. She uses a battering ram to shatter the Capitol windows. If you know this person call the FBI’s Tipline at 1-800-CALL-FBI (1-800-225-5324)
@FBIWFO #SeditionVids

Based on the latest info I could find, here's why what happened on Jan. 6th was worse than we thought.

It was coordinated. This was not merely a crowd of protestors accidentally incited to storm the Capitol by the intemperance of the President & other speakers at the rally.

Security experts are combing through the online chatter leading up to the rally and have found extremist groups planning violence. People came w/ malice aforethought, thus armored insurrectionists pushing to the front of the crowd, pipe bombs, & so

But it gets worse. The feds seem to be investigating several Republican members of Congress for connections to the organizers of the rally. (The FBI has warned lawmakers in closed door hearings that they may be shocked with what comes out.)

Indeed, at least one member of Congress, Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) alleges that these GOP members gave some of the insurrectionists tours of the Capitol building on January 5th, the day before.

The implication is that these GOP congressmen used the walkthroughs to familiarize the insurrectionists with the building layout so that they could push into the building and confront their colleagues who were opposed to overturning the electoral ballot count.

1. Military Intelligence Contact Update: He said again that because the Fri 25 Dec Nashville recreational vehicle RV bombing was a Deep State threat against the RV revaluation release AND a threat AGAINST THE EXCHANGES starting, DoD and POTUS HAD to do Spec Op (SOF) missions...

2. ... to seek out and apprehend and take out the bad guys behind the Nashville bombing; his info is that these SOF missions will take the next 72-96 hours to complete and he said that they are OBVIOUSLY NECESSARY to PROTECT THE REVALUATION RV PROCESS OF EXCHANGES when you and...

3. .. I in T4B start exchanging;
. He said he is sorry that this pushes the timing out—he said that this is what the RV-GESARA war looks like, but it is also what WINNING against the Deep State LOOKS LIKE (as Jeffrey Prather says), winning by POTUS & DOD over the Deep State &...

4. ... Chinese Communist co-conspirators trying to stop the RV release & NESARA / GESARA through their COVID-19 scamdemic plan and their related (and sloppily & clumsily executed) election vote fraud plan to oust Trump and hijack the RV/GCR for their dark draconian World...

5. ... Economic Forum “Great Reset” plan over the next 10 years, intending to weaken We-the-People by scamdemic lockdowns, mask mandates, COVID-19 vaccines to make us & the USA & all nations WEAK and MANAGEABLE in their globalist NWO plan.(edited)
[11:43 PM]
. He is confirming...

NEW: DOJ IG releases report on the zero tolerance policy -- aka the family separation policy -- finding that the Attorney General was the driving force behind it, failed to prepare for it, and that Jeff Sessions knew it would lead to children being separated from their fams.

Notes from US Attorneys across the country on a call that Jeff Sessions held in May 2018.

“we need to take away children; if care about kids, don’t bring them in; won’t give amnesty to kids; to people with kids” (strikethrough in original)."

"We concluded that the Department’s single-minded
focus on increasing immigration prosecutions came at the
expense of careful and appropriate consideration of the impact of family unit prosecutions and child separations."

Link to the report. It is INSANE how much more thorough the DOJ IG is as opposed to the DHS IG. The reports don't even

Report confirms the reporting of @shearm @ktbenner @nytmike from last

Just reminding everybody of this for no particular reason whatsoever.

"If we lose freedom here, there's no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth." [Ronald Reagan] We are on the verge of government tyranny, as a now domestic enemy, the Democrat party, is attempting to impose a fraudulent election on the citizens; which undermines the

Constitution, and would destroy the republic, and cause liberty to forever perish from the earth. If they succeed, the individual freedom heretofore enjoyed by every citizen, as reflected in the Bill of Rights, will be removed, and the people will no longer be "citizens," but

rather "subjects;" meaning subservient to the government; to a tyrannical socialist dictatorship; a fundamental transformation similar to that which happened in today's Venezuela. The elite will maintain their wealth, and gain even more; but 97% of Americans, specifically, the

middle- and working-class citizens, will lose economic opportunity and security, as the ruling socialists, will overrun the US population, with cheap foreign labor, through an open borders, and mass migration policy throughout our land; with permanent cheap laborers imported from

Central America, Asia, and the Middle East. The American people will experience their historic standard of living, and economic opportunity, vanish, and ultimately reside in an economic state of poverty, with no way out, as the American Dream is forever relegated to the annals of

Earlier when asked about why the govt didn't act earlier the PM said “I think we were told about the new variant and the way it was taking off on 18th December and we went into T4 across the vast bulk of the country pretty much in the next 24 hours.”

This isn't entirely correct.

The new variant was identified in early December after genome data was paired with a curiosity that the rates of infection in Kent were not falling despite national restrictions and then T3.

So there was indicative sense that the variant may be playing its part as early as that and perhaps sport greater transmissibility.

On December 14th Matt Hancock informed the Commons, saying the new variant was in at least 60 local authorities already.

He told MPs in that over that week, there had been sharp, exponential rises in coronavirus infections across London, Kent, parts of Essex and Hertfordshire.

He said they couldn't be sure whether that was due to the new variant but that caution was required.

As a result, London and several other places in the South East were moved to T3.

On 18th December NERVTAG reported that they believed the new variant was indeed more transmissible.

On the 19th, the govt acted. This is the action I assume the PM referred to today.

The U.S. central government grew relentlessly larger, richer, and more powerful during the decades that every problem faced by Americans got worse. Why does anyone think making the government even bigger would *solve* any of those problems instead of making them even worse?

This is not just a matter of government ineptitude and corruption, although both of those are major factors. Our problems get worse as the government gets bigger because the Leviathan State and its clients have a vested interest in making them worse.

One of the biggest lies of statism is that government and its employees are utterly selfless and immune to the incentives that drive people in the private sector. This is absurd. Every government agency seeks to increase its "business" and "profits," just like corporations.

The key difference is that government increases its "market share" by giving BAD service and FAILING to provide value for money. Its "revenues" grow through coercion, not customer satisfaction. Agencies go out of business if they succeed too well at their tasks.

Time is money and money is time. The more of its time and money a nation pours into the fundamentally corrupt and inefficient engines of the State, the less it has for the private enterprises and VOLUNTARY cooperative endeavors that could actually resolve society's problems.

A thread on... where we are as Americans.

Since I was a kid, I've been a 'news junkie'. Read both local newspapers every day, all the newsmagazines, and watched every local & national newscast. I even wrote & voiced a national financial news broadcast for several years.

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Even after I left broadcasting, I continued to consume all the news within reach. Religiously watching all the Sunday shows, writing letters to the editor, and plowing into Social Media- when it first started! I even watched all the late-nite comics for their witty snark.

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Now, for the first time in my life, I don't. I keep up with events, and still read voraciously, but I just can't watch or read the majority of the corporate news. Because most of it ISN'T news anymore, but a sad self-parody akin to the 1976 Movie 'Network'.

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Paddy Chayefsky wrote a scathing satire of a news network so consumed with ratings that it eschewed journalistic ethics in favor of sensationalism and pushing narrow corporate and political interests. That sadly, is no longer parody.

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The line between 'hard news' and opinion was erased at most outlets long ago. We no longer talk of 'objectivity' or hearing both sides'. People refer to most (formerly) 'hard news' outlets by their ideological slant, and the agenda they push.

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They're talking about a military coup right now and if it doesn't happen we're going to be told the best way to heal is pretending it never happened.

This is how abuse works.

3,000 people are dying a day and after nearly a year of this Congress is releasing the barest fraction of the economic relief needed to keep people safe and only in exchange for the promise that we can't sue those who endangered the dead.

This is how abuse works.

We have a president who spent 4 yrs lying every time he opened his mouth, obvious lies everyone knew were lies, which his followers believed mostly because the sight of them believing lies caused the rest of us distress, and they loved our distress.

This is how abuse works.

We've endured the sight of police brutalizing our fellow citizens for years, a horror magnified by the knowledge that for Black people this brutality has been a constant way of life, but we're told change must wait, because we aren't asking right.

This is how abuse works.

We have been menaced and lied to and confronted with a daily litany of atrocity that has only made the Republican rank and file happier, and the only message we ever get is that we need to be better at relating to the feelings of people who find comfort in suffering.

It's abuse.