Patriots,

Here is some encouragement for those that are anxious.

🚨RE-READ DROPS🚨

17 warned us in advance that [they] would try to cheat.
All assets deployed.

*PATRIOTS ARE IN CONTROL.

*YOU AND YOUR FAMILIES ARE SAFE.

I think the total divorce from reality evinced by these efforts to overturn the election are not a positive sign for the country's political life and I really don't understand the continued "Oh, haha, it's all ridiculous nonsense" in some quarters

There's this reflexive need to denigrate custom because defending it is either duping oneself into going along with "the system" or just dowdy; I don't share that disposition. I agree it's important to keep perspective and recognize the absurdity, but it's also disturbing

Corey Robin, someone who I admire a lot even though I disagree with him, said recently "Well, Trump lacks the sort of emphasis on the power of the will that fascists have." The point is taken: he is lazy, but his will manifests itself in this total denial of reality

Trump's combination of utter cynicism and total belief in nonsense is part of the reason why fascists viewed him as an avatar of their type of politics, maybe he's more a John the Baptist than a Christ but its nonetheless in the same vein

Again, my position is that this not what Paxton calls "classical fascism" so much as some kind of para-fascism, but the idea "Oh it can't be anything like fascism because its manifestly absurd and attracts losers and crackpots" is just self-contradictory

1/ Woke up to find Arnold Schwarzenegger released a powerful video regarding recent events, revealing personal pain having growing up with an abusive father. He skirted around the details.

This is what he’s done all his life in order to ascend to power.

In the 80’s we all knew.

2/ Before the internet it was hard to track down info, but there were fewer political elites, people knew each other-secrets couldn’t be kept, they left paper trails, many Nazis were still alive and victims who witnessed events confirmed relationships.

Schwarzenegger had a plan.

3/ He said once when young and not yet living in the US, his aim was to to move here, marry into an elite family and govern. He did just that.

He used bodybuilding as an entry into crappy sci fi films,acting became a ladder. He campaigned for Reagan, networked the Rep pol clique

4/ Meeting Maria Shriver he saw his chance to snake his way into a important politically connected family, he used her to ascend then discarded her.

Since the bodybuilding years he was known as a notorious womanizer, a habit which never stopped during the marriage, or after.

5/ He was also known for admiring Hitler, and smoking pot (a pol career killer) as seen in the 1977 documentary Pumping Iron and the outakes. In 1991 he paid 1.5mil for the film rights, purchased from producer director George Butler,to sanitize history by editing out the bad bits

THREAD: Georgia — GEORGIA! — just elected a Black pastor and Jewish millennial to flip the U.S. Senate for the Democrats. /1

Georgia — GEORGIA! — just elected a Black pastor and Jewish millennial to flip the U.S. Senate for the Democrats. /2

Georgia — GEORGIA! — just elected a Black pastor and Jewish millennial to flip the U.S. Senate for the Democrats. /3

Georgia — GEORGIA! — just elected a Black pastor and Jewish millennial to flip the U.S. Senate for the Democrats. /4

Georgia — GEORGIA! — just elected a Black pastor and Jewish millennial to flip the U.S. Senate for the Democrats. /5

How Patriots Get Played:

1. @KelemenCari reposts an image from @brettlewis to her followers that she did not fact check. Similar to mainstream media. Just get it out there, fact check later.

After following political issues, stories and videos since prior to 2008 when Obama ran for office and watching Christians seemingly asleep on the job, so to speak I have come to a conclusion that I feel I need to share with those who follow me. Because there are so many stories

@NickNYIslesMets @kiki_cliff @Peaceforus21 @NYCMayor As you say it is unclear but there is little to no legal precedent other than two instances in recorded history the Supreme Court because of how the Constitution is laid out properly and it is written pretty strongly i don't believe at all they will rule anything.

@kiki_cliff @Peaceforus21 @NYCMayor As a constitution spreads out as interpretive only incumbents a tool that was used literally so America's impeachment law would not be used against private citizens. It is highly unlikely with little to no chance that the Supreme Court will give congressional power that way.

@kiki_cliff @Peaceforus21 @NYCMayor More likely they will refuse to hear the case.

@kiki_cliff @Peaceforus21 @NYCMayor And you have the conservative majority so

@kiki_cliff @Peaceforus21 @NYCMayor As a betting man I would say odds are like I said Above This impeachment is Dead on Arrival the Democrats know this that's why they're going to try to delay even sending the Articles to the Senate not back until the 19th.
Trump will go free and be entitled to all of his benefits.

DAILY REMINDER: Joe Biden is NOT the President-Elect
Yesterday, was a big day. I was hoping to finally hear truth about how DVS were used to flip 6,000 votes in Antrim County from Trump to Biden. Instead, MI SoS and AG were authorized to intervene in the Antrim County case.

Why is the Antrim County Dominion data such a big deal?
- Evidence that Dominion systems were used to flip votes from Trump to Biden would be grounds to immediately decertify the 2020 Antrim County election results.

- Because Dominion systems were used in 47 out of 83 counties (including Wayne County), such evidence should immediately decertify the State of Michigan election results.

- Because Dominion systems were used in 28 out of 50 states including the most hotly contested battleground states in America, such evidence should provide basis of U.S. legislature to act under authority of the 12th Amendment to select next President and Vice President.

Lots more than this to unpack, however.
First the good news...
- If it weren't for the vigilance of Antrim County resident Bill Bailey, the 6,000 vote flip from Trump to Biden by Dominion Voting Systems would have gone unnoticed.

@wakingjake @SamSeder @jimmy_dore @buzz_chronicles save as culture

My sincerest hope is that yesterday's abhorred invasion of white entitlement has taught the politicians who encouraged and enabled it that their political theatrics aren't a joke.

Lawmakers can incite a radical insurgency if they lie convincingly enough, but as lawmakers that insurgency will come for your heads after they've gotten bored attacking the marginalized people you unleashed them on.

Try to install a dictator and that dictator's rabid followers will put your heads on the chopping block right next to the rest of us.

As representatives, your jobs are to do whats best for all citizens. All of us whether you like us or not. That starts with putting an end to gridlock, revisionism, and blaming groups of marginalized people and the other side of the aisle.

Keeping the country stable takes compromise, not winning at all costs. We are your neighbors, not your enemies.

Absolutely.

A thread on papers that show the positive impact of having #women in #politics.

(1/n)

Women as #Policy Makers: Evidence from a randomized policy experiment in #India

Raghabendra Chattopadhyay, Esther Duflo

https://t.co/vVMJosWGEX

(2/n)

Are #Female Leaders Good for #Education? Evidence from #India.

Irma Clots-Figueras

(3/n)

#Health and the Political Agency of #Women

Sonia Bhalotra (@SoniaBhalotra), Irma Clots-Figueras

(4/n)

Powerful #Women: Does Exposure Reduce #Bias

Lori Beaman (@LoriBeaman), Raghabendra Chattopadhyay, Esther Duflo,
Rohini Pande, and Petia

(5/n)

Effect of #political decentralization and #female #leadership on institutional births and #child mortality in rural Bihar, #India.

Santosh Kumar (@santosh_econ), Nishith Prakash

Tough choice: @GavinNewsom and @JoeBiden speaking at the same time...

Going w/@GavinNewsom budget talk:

"There's no better investment than #teacher preparation."

You have my attention...

2/

Adding funds for Special Ed, Early Childhood and Preschool- "Historic investments".

Of the $13B in deferrals $9.2B will be paid off- if #CaLeg adopts proposal

$2B to support reopening schools for in-person teaching

Go on... #Budget2021
3/

"We're going to be serious about women re-entering the #workforce" $2B action package for equity
Early childhood support (3 & 4 YOs)
#Preschool PreK/K

Schools will also get federal funds $6.7B to help re-open
4/

Now onto #highereducation
No tuition, fee increases
More student aid
Community College support (hooray!)
Open source text books (smart)

5/

BREAKING: For the fourth time this week, the Supreme Court has voted 6-3 to clear the way for a last-minute federal execution before Trump leaves office. Justices Breyer and Sotomayor write dissents. Justice Kagan also notes her dissent.

Dustin Higgs has COVID-19 and will be executed tonight despite lung damage that could turn his lethal injection into an egregiously painful death.

Here is Justice Sotomayor’s closing.

Here is Breyer on the SCOTUS majority’s rush to execute

Sotomayor names the federal inmates who have been killed since Trump revived the federal death penalty—a punishment that Biden will put a moratorium on next week

Sotomayor: “This is not justice.”