President Trump extends the national emergency with respect to Southern Border until February 15, 2022.

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This thread is against attempts to 1) downplay the danger of a coup and/or 2) argue that Trump's Twitter ban is actually what we should be worried about. All posts are directly lifted from today's WSWS perspective, linked at the end.

#CoupAttempt

The claims being made by various pseudo-left tendencies that the seriousness of the events in Washington should not be exaggerated, that it is wrong to refer to a coup, are dangerously complacent.

Jacobin magazine, which is affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America, argues against “social media posts and liberal magazines of record [that] immediately characterized the rampage as a coup.”

The danger of fascistic violence, Jacobin claims, is minimal because the ruling class supports democracy. It writes: “The takeover of the Capitol has laid bare the lack of backing, both among corporate elites and within state institutions, for far-right authoritarianism. [...]

[...] Capital, it seems, is still committed to liberal democracy, which has served to safeguard its interests throughout American history.” [end of Jacobin quote]

After all the jokes, my serious take:

By the numbers, no person in all of human history has shared a greater number of conspiracy theories with a greater number of people than Donald Trump did through social media.

This pipeline is now cut off, which is a "really big deal."

For our LikeWar book, I actually read every Trump tweet, going back to his first.

The sheer scale of not just the lies and insults in mindnumbing obviously, but he was also notable for just how many conspiracy theories he fed fire too long before presidency.

It hit topics from well known ones like his birtherism to other ones that are even more despicable now like aiding anti-vaxxers. Indeed, on that last one, my worry was that after Biden came in, he would pivot back to that theme, to stoke anger and bring attention back to himself

We argued in book that the path to making the internet less toxic are the superspreaders. IE, just like in public health, instead of trying to police everyone, focus on those key nodes that effect everyone.

Well, the largest superspreader of proven false conspiracy theories in human history is finally unable to operate in the same way.

One reason it really is difficult for some to wrap their heads around why it's fine that Trump is banned from Twitter is because "a private company can do what it wants" is an unsatisfying answer. And it really is unsatisfying, but it is also not the actual reason why it's fine.

The reason why it is fine is basic to cybernetics: the most unstable element of any system has the most influence over the system. Not control necessarily, but influence.

Trump is less *stable* in his messaging than Ayatollahs and the Chinese government, leaving aside the object-level horror of messages. He's less restrained than pornbots, and more powerful than a run-of-the-mill death threatener.

He's also the absolute center of world news and attention, every day.

Both the "censorship" and "private companies" crowds are arguing for a static abstraction in the face of a concrete dynamic.

And the concrete dynamic is that Twitter, headquartered and publicly traded in the US, with many employees who are difficult to easily replace, is being made unstable as both a communication venue and a company, by Trump's continued presence on the site.

Oh, my. Former FT Editor @lionelbarber defends bothsideism, impartiality, objectivity and other recent journalistic tradition.

In it, @lionelbarber laments the loss of trust in Walter Cronkite; "newspaper of record." That was trust imagined by the institution & limited to white privilege & power. Now, on the net, we hear people never included in the institution, who never trusted it. See: #BLM, #metoo

Barber quotes @WesleyLowery, which is good, but misses his point: that these institutional notions of objectivity, impartiality, trust were fictions those in power told themselves because they had the power to do so. It was journalism's fatal tautology. 3/

The bothsideism Barber defends was an invention, too, aimed at securing power journalism's hold on its claims of objectivity, &c. Of course, I advocate completeness, fairness, accuracy, openness. But then I advocate judgment. 4/

One irony of the age is that journalists are demanding that platforms make judgments that journalists themselves--like Barber--refuse to make. That is not onesideism. It is a sin of journalistic omission. What do I mean by that? 5/

1) This is how we, all of humanity, move forward unite & focus on a beautiful empowered future together.
Data source is a Navy Super Soldier (Yes like Captain America), the same one who infiltrated ANTIFA & BLM posing as Trump supporter in the Capitol event on 1/6/21 & seized..

So I was traveling with Mattis in 2017 when Trump made his infamous “fire and fury” comments amid escalation with North Korea over its nuclear program, and obviously talk of a preemptive strike. (Thread)

Mattis looked exhausted and was desperately avoiding engaging in discussion about what Trump had said. He kept insisting that he would “leave the rhetoric up to the President” but you could see that he was trying to hold back a hell of a lot of thoughts.

Staff told me at the time that he wasn’t getting a lot of sleep (he never really did anyway) but that despite his constant insistence that he kept other people up at night, he was having a difficult time sorting a way out of the situation.

Later that year, on another trip with Mattis this time to Asia, I asked him about what he thought of nuclear madman theory. It was my way of trying to get him to engage on what we were seeing from Trump, since he is a student of history, without making him utter Trump’s name.

For those unfamiliar, nuclear madman theory predates Nixon, but he’s closely associated with it as he was working with aids to suggest to the North Vietnamese that he might just be crazy enough to nuke them, and that they should therefore negotiate a settlement.

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@Franklin_Graham, oh where do I start.

You have every right to share your frustration & outrage towards the impeachment. You still would’ve been wrong, I would’ve criticized you for downplaying our attack on the capitol, etc. But you went further, you compared Trump to Jesus.

Trumps loss, drove these pastors crazy and mad. For 4 years they lived a fantasy and tolerated Trumps immorality, corruption, hatred, racism, anti-life and much more his whole presidency. Scandal after scandal. They built their faith around Trump being called by God and when

Trump lost, it broke them. They didn’t know what they would tell their followers that they were wrong and God allowed this. Some sobered up, many live in denial but some like Franklin, sold their soul for power. They preach a false God and Jesus. They compared Trump to Jesus.

As dangerous Trump has become, Trump is Trump and we expected this. But Franklin, we didn’t. He went against everything he ever taught and preached. He wanted to become greater than his father and be America’s pastor. He wanted to be America’s pope. He was hungry for power.

Trumps loss broke him. I thought Franklin would’ve taken the high road and excepted the reality of Trump being a failure and needed to apologize for the incitement of an insurrection he started. Trump being impeached twice and a few rep. doing the right thing, drove him crazy.

(1/x) We need to organize to protect each other and fight this while we still have some semblance of freedom. There are police forces across the country with military grade weapons and probably the vast majority are very loyal to Trump,

(2/x) and then the military itself (though I’ve heard mixed things about soldiers’ loyalties to Trump) and national guard. Just like when there’s a BLM protest and the national guard shows up in a day, if there’s a coup, police are *already* everywhere, and then

(3/x) the national guard and military can also be deployed throughout the country within a day. They can also massively ramp up censorship online and increase tracking down and arresting people for their political organizing or news-sharing. All the above, & many very bad things,

(4/x) have of course already *been* happening for the whole course of US history, but that doesn’t negate the fact that living under a dictatorship will be a massive change on a massive scale with violence and repression ramped up even more every way to opposition or even

(5/x) just perceived opposition. This is how dictatorships work. It’s in the history books. I’ve read about it in Chile.

Supporting the impeachment of President Trump under these circumstances will do great damage to the institutions of government and could invite further violence at a time the President is calling for calm.

If there was a time for America’s political leaders to bend a knee and ask for God’s counsel and guidance, it is now. The most important thing for leaders to do in times of crisis is to make things better, not worse.

The process being used in the House to impeach President Trump is an affront to any concept of due process and will further divide the country.

The President, who will be leaving office in less than a week, has committed to an orderly transfer of power, encouraging calm and rejecting violence.

The House impeachment process seeks to legitimize a snap impeachment totally void of due process. No hearings. No witnesses. It is a rushed process that, over time, will become a threat to future presidents.

read this as breakfast heated --

the scuzzy history of enabling the tRUmp era


and by 2021

#TrueStory

on the Raiders in the Capitol

On the incitement

Thread: I'm being conservative (ha!), but say Trump committed 100 appalling, unprecedented, unpresidential, if not inhuman acts a day since the escalator ride. This amounts to approximately 166,000 of them. Things he said or did that were either immoral, corrupt, cruel...1/10

(2/10)...criminal, treasonous, or simply inappropriately offensive, ignorant or otherwise mortifying, as well as the things he omitted to do, the things that amounted to a President's job. This doesn't count the things he did before that: the Birtherism,...

(3/10)...the Central Park 5, destroying Atlantic City, swindling hundreds with his phony diploma mill, etc. I wish I had kept a diary -- I'm certain somebody has -- because that number, as large as it is, doesn't begin to convey it. For most Americans, a majority of Americans,...

(4/10)...it has been like receiving that many SLAPS, every few minutes, every day for four and a half years. A constant feeling of agida and high blood pressure and upset stomach and anxiety and nausea. Every day. Four and a half years. He's the uniter? Families are DIVIDED...

(5/10)...I have numerous friends I have not spoken to since his Presidential campaign began. I think I hate him most for his skunk-like penchant for NEVER GOING THE FUCK AWAY. That's what we've prayed for every day, right? That he would be GONE. Out of our lives, so we can...

WHY TRUMP IS
THE JAMES BOND
WE NEED AND HOPE FOR

There is a reason so many people see @POTUS @realDonaldTrump as a mythic, heroic #Agent007 character...

Watch and listen...

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He is taking hit after hit, and always re-emerges a savvy winner...

But TRUMP is SO much more...

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The DIABOLICAL vote tabulation #fraude proves that GREAT FORCES are against him.

And us.

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