Playbook: "Reality, meet D.C.”

MAYBE IT’S THE COLD, the impending wintry mix that’s bearing down on Washington. Maybe it’s because we’re about to leave 2020 -- that wretched, disgusting year -- in the rear view.

WHO KNOWS WHAT EXACTLY PROMPTED THIS, but reality is beginning to intrude in Washington.

REALITY 1) @JOEBIDEN is going to be the president. This was obvious to most breathing, thinking human beings with a pulse, but many Republican members of Congress were willfully blind to it.

BUT A FEW OF THEM BEGAN JOINING THE REST OF US on Planet Earth on Monday. @SenThomTillis called BIDEN the “presumptive president.” @LindseyGrahamSC -- who was calling around to state election officials a few weeks ago -- said “it’s a very, very narrow path for the president."

@SenThomTillis @LindseyGrahamSC SEN. ROY BLUNT (R-Mo.), the chair of the inauguration, said: “We’ll deal with Vice President Biden as the president-elect. The president continues obviously to have all the options he has available to him, but the electoral vote today was significant.”

@SenThomTillis @LindseyGrahamSC RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN took it further than most Republicans, straight up congratulating BIDEN after a month of saying he was waiting for the process to play out.

Rs made gains in state legislatures in 2020. Even where manual audits are conducted, they rarely include state races. 😢

“Ds spent big to take control of state legislatures but lost their key targets. Now they’ll be on the sidelines as new maps are drawn”

I reported on the sorry state of election auditing laws in the US in this pre-election piece for @NYRDaily. This must change. #RobustManualAuditsNOW
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2/ “Earlier this year, ... Republicans blocked federal legislation, the SAFE Act, which would have required such [manual] audits for most federal races.”

3/ “America’s preeminent election-auditing expert, Philip Stark, a professor of statistics at...UCB, told me a few weeks ago that “only a few jurisdictions currently audit elections in a way that has a good chance of catching and correcting wrong reported outcomes.” @philipbstark

4/ “That requires a trustworthy paper trail—primarily hand-marked paper ballots kept demonstrably secure throughout the election and the audit—and [what is known as] a risk-limiting audit using that paper trail.” #HandMarkedPaperBallots

In b/w 1998 - 2003, Congress and Liberals adopted strategy to defeat Late Atal Bihari Vajpayee (NDA). The key points were:-
• Intolerance
• Fascism
• Islamophobia
• Kargil Coffin Scam
• Orthodox Thinking Process
• Saree Culture
• Dalit Slaughter
• Cow Safety

• Jai Shree Ram (Communal Slogan)

This was how Sonia Gandhi and liberals, with the help of International Media, organisations and other NGOs misleaded India and defeated NDA in 2004 general elections.

They tried the same strategy in 2014 & 2019 but got fail. I

In 2019, Rafael Scam was the core agenda of Congress and they gave a slogan "Chaukidaar Chor hai".

For 2024, General Elections Congress has apoted a new strategy based on 2011. In 2011, Anti - Corruption Protest had shaken the roots of Congress in India. Again, the hike in

Petrol Price shocked Congress and NDA called for "Bharat Bandh". It was the rise of Mr. @narendramodi jee as National Leader. From that day, NDA never looked back.

Now Congress is adopting the same policy. Firstly in 2019, they saw a ray of hope of protest in CAA and

there was a pan India protest along with #shaheenbagh for 3 months and leads to #DelhiRiots2020. In 2020, the same is repeated as #FarmerProtests.

Till 2024 General Elections, You will observe such protests as common weapon of @INCIndia #Liberals #AntiNationals and #Jihadis.

Trump dead-ender Eric Metaxas continues to insist that nobody has provided an explanation of why Georgia election workers allegedly pulled out a "suitcase" full of votes after observers were sent home on election night. https://t.co/EeKBkkdDqP

Thread on elections:

1) Only CPIM can compete with BJP in hypocrisy and shamelessness. I mean they are calling the opposition coalition (Muslim League + Congress) communal in Kerala, equating Muslim League with RSS and subtly consolidating Hindus using Islamophobic

2) campaigns while in West Bengal they're themselves in alliance with Congress and a Muslim party ISF, founded by an Islamic cleric. In West Bengal they are appealing on the lines of social justice, Dalit emancipation and Muslim empowerment.

3) Their candidates in Bengal, most of whom would distance themselves from anybody visibly Muslim and would leave no chance to demonize them, are now flaunting pictures with Muslim men and women covered in skullcaps and Hijab. In Kerala, they once disowned their own party leader

4) because he performed Umrah. Meanwhile, their PR agency called NewsClick is publishing pieces suggesting how TMC's violence helped BJP make inroads in Bengal while ignoring that it was CPIM's vote that shifted to BJP and hence it should be them who should be called out for not

5) being able to keep their votes intact. I am not in support of Mamata in Bengal or Congress in Kerala. I only hope and wish ISF, IUML, SDPI, AIMIM, AIUDF, Welfare Party and other Muslim outfits win as many seats as there are! #ApniQayadat

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1. (On politics) I was once in a conversation with an elderly friend of mine who is American. He is deeply involved in politics in the States and I asked about what he had learnt. He said, "our movement pushed and mobilised and we got (.........) into the white house."

2. "However, we saw that our interests were not executed by him then we realised in a democratic setting sometimes its the people that surround the president or anyone in executive positions that really matter. Those he speaks to first and last.
We therefore changed our strategy"

3. We do support but now with the intent of placing people around the elected officers.
There is a lot of space for influence in positions that are non elective. Every executive leader leans on people to help in developing ideas and in executing them.

4. The young folks should be looking here. Elective positions like Governorship etc can be very expensive. Legitimate costs will run into hundreds of millions but there are positions for assistants, tech advisers, etc that wield alot of influence in shaping policy and direction.

5. If you want to change things you must get your foot into the room and have a seat at the table. The least position there will wield more power than being an critic on the outside. In positions like this skill, loyalty and confidentiality are the requirements and not money.

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1/ This thread is an attempt to capture some of the week's discussions about Q*non and how to handle the cult followers and the danger they embody

(Side note, I plan to ask the Trumpites I know who're still clinging to their hate, "How's Q?" so they can confront the association)

Ok as a French Muslim, i think, i must to explain to EVERYONE what’s this exactly about the “Halal” ban slaughter (1/8)

Recently, many have seen some tweets saying that the slaughter of animals with the "halal" ritual will be banned in France. (2/8)

But, unfortunately, this is the problem of the networks, no one will go digging to know more, laziness trivialized in these modern times surely. (3/8)

Know what you must to know it’s they banned only those who use the electronarcosis then they slaughter the animal with the halal ritual.
Before it was permissible by the French law but not by the European rules. (4/8)

Also theses three mosques (Evry, Paris, Lyon) who’re mentioned on many articles about this, you must to know now, they already cheated with the whole French Muslim community. (5/8)

Believe me or not it doesn’t matter. The January 6th elector ballot count is going o go down as the greatest troll oof all time. You may or may not know, but the Vice President gets to count the electors. That’s the one thing the Constitution makes crystal clear. Apparently, the

Ok so I thought I’d throw at least my opinion in about this whole “Chinese Troops in Canada” deal.

In my honest opinion..... hopefully this will be a breakdown that they wanted us to.... ya know to add to “Red October”

Canada and China’s main colors... Red. Month. October.

Where was there a wall built? Why was it built in addition to stopping trafficking?

Think dangerous animals and a cage....

Now where are the Chinese Troops mainly stationed? Along which state border?

Washington.... why? If you and your sick band of misfits had to make a dash to a border.... from California thru Oregon and then thru Washington State..... they would think “Well hell... it’s time for French fries and gravy!”

As Trooper Ramathorn would put it...

Now does one think that they would simply just be able to skip into the land of Maple Syrup, Hockey and Poutine?

Maybe if England still had control of Canada would that happen.... but silly goose.... the United States of America decided on July 13, 2018...

anyone currently shocked by the fact that the politicians in power recant and reverse the views they held when they were in opposition (and vice versa) has simply not paid any attention to history.

that's 100% to be expected.

where you stand depends up where you sit.

always.

this latest biden refusal to commit to a view on packing SCOTUS until after the election is just this same phenomenon.

if he wins, he's for packing it. if he loses, he'll be against it.

this is because almost none of these people stand on any principles.

they just seek power.

this is why it's so hard to trust any of them.

and why shouldn't they act this way?

it's what we reward. we all accept their lies even when we KNOW they are lies. we elect them anyway.

we accept that all we ever get is the lesser of evils.

will biden pay any price? nope.

it's behavioralism 101

the fault lies not w/ these narcissistic liars & sociopaths, it lies with us

we're the ones electing them & putting up with monstrous & dishonest behavior because "it's not as bad as what the other guy would do."

those are the railroad tracks to tyranny.

it demands a question:

if the outcome of an election is so impactful that it can make or ruin your life or save or lose the republic (as many claim it is) is that not proof positive that the government is FAR too powerful?

do you really want to gamble for such stakes?

There are already calls for "forgiveness" and "healing" and "reaching out" now that Joe Biden is elected.

I understand the impulse behind these statements, but they are FUNDAMENTALLY immoral

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The best version of the argument is something like this:

America is a divided country, and pursuing the politics of division will only exacerbate the existing split. It is necessary to model a more inclusive politics that celebrates differences.

The assumption is that SOMEONE needs to lower their weapon, and it might as well be the party that campaigned on tolerance. By demonstrating this better way, conservatives will give up their resentment of the left, and return to focusing on shared values rather than partisanship

One problem with this argument is that it is plainly wrong. America ALREADY TRIED THIS. A Democratic president with a legislative supermajority tried to demonstrate magnanimity. The Republicans REJECTED it, demonized it, and used the opportunity to DEEPEN the partisan divide.

That isn't the part that makes it IMMORAL. That is just what makes it EVIDENTLY STUPID as a strategy for national harmony. It didn't work pre-Trump, there's no substantive difference that would make it work post-Trump.

NEW: @StateDept's top counterterrorism official says the Jan 6 siege of the #USCapitol "wasn't just an assault on the Capitol. It was an assault on democracy, w/a violent mob trying to interfere with the results of the election"

"Nothing is more sacred to our constitutional democracy than the peaceful transfer of power" per Amb. Nathan Sales speaking to @AEI

Adds that those who rioted "desecrated the Capitol & the principals for which its stands"

"There's no room for complacency" @StateDept's Sales warns on the fight vs terrorism, repeating warnings that there needs to be a focus on #ISIS, #alQaida in #Africa
#StateCTatAEI

CT needs to remain "an urgent priority" per Sales

"Counterterrorism & Great Power Competition are not mutually exclusive" he says "CT is a competitive advantage for our country...security cooperation can forge durable relationships that blunt our rivals' malign influence"

"The basic architecture of American counterterrorism has been remarkably durable & stable" per @StateDept's Amb Sales, noting border security keeping out #ISIS #alQaida, plus the success of sanctions

17 December 2020 #MAGAanalysis #Overturn

It Is @POTUS' Job To Secure The 2020 Election

There is NO President Elect Biden. That is a lie. We face a stolen election. Maybe not the first. But, certainly the first landslide obliterated. #Brazen. Or maybe better: #BrazenTheft.

2) We've discussed The Big Lie before. We've discussed my beloved Shaggy video, It Wasn't Me. In the war between Truth and Lies, it is often, sadly, the most committed who wins. Truth does not uniformly defeat falsehood. That is sad.

3) No intelligent, honest, and grounded person could possibly conceive of HRC getting away with her crime family leadership at the helm of the Ship of State in America. Email scandal? No. Information crime blatantly in your face. This is The Swamp, The Cabal. And yet...

4) And yet she parrades herself...HERSELF...in evil, corrupt pride across the land. Forgive my foul language, but no other can convey her message. Fuck you, America, she says with her every public statement. I win. You lose. You thought you could catch me? Never going to happen.

5) Obama and Clinton hate each other. I have no doubt of this. But they are best of friends against America. Well, they love America as victim. They detest America as world power. They detest the Constitutional Democratic Republic of America. They want to delight in its fall.