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Five dead. One invader shot while breaking in, three dead from other causes - one I'll talk about shortly. And one capitol police officer bludgeoned to death by an invader wielding a fire extinguisher. Stay classy, guys!
The self-own was an amazing Darwin Award, no idea if he took himself out of the gene pool before having kids. Apparently his social media feed had a photo of himself in a manly pose with two assault rifles with a caption along the lines of "Let's go get 'em!" Well, apparently he wanted to steal a painting, except he needed both hands to wrestle it off the wall and he was carrying a taser or a stun gun. So what would any true patriot do? He shoved it down his pants! And in the process of trying to wrangle the painting off the wall, the device discharged into his testicles, and it resulted in a fatal heart attack.
You cannot say the man didn't have balls.
The woman who was shot was a military veteran who served tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. She swore an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution. She later became a massive QAnon believer and apparently decided that her oath to the Constitution became superseded to a wild fantasy with zero evidence behind it.
And if you believe there is evidence that the election was stolen or rigged, read on. I have words for that upcoming.
Our Beloved Leader, the Cheeto Benito, got himself permabanned from Twitter. I expected that to take about two weeks after the 20th, or some time around early February. But that was before this week. His personal account was already under suspension for inciting violence related to the invasion of Congress, after the suspension was lifted he tweeted that he would not be attending the inauguration of President-elect Joseph Biden. And Twitter permabanned his personal account.
Seems innocuous enough on the surface. Then my wife said that it could be viewed as a dogwhistle to his followers that "Hey, I'm not going to be there! Go the inauguration, bring your rifles! Have fun!"
Then last night he twice tried to tweet bile from the POTUS account. And they were immediately scrubbed. So Twitter has a team monitoring that account 24/7.
Then later or this morning he tried to tweet the same bile, including election fraud crap from his campaign Twitter account. And now that account is permabanned. Seems that Twitter has an policy for avoiding bans.... Whoulda thunk.
Anyone else you want permabanned, Donny? How about Giuliani? Or your kids? Please! Post on all your kids Twitter accounts!
Other Twitter permabans? Sidney Powell and Michael Flynn. Both posted tweets about election fraud. And Sidney has another problem: Dominion Voting Systems has sued her for $1.3 BILLION for defamation, and they won't take a settlement: they're going to push for discovery, and force her to reveal all documents that she alleged their machines were rigged to flip votes from Trump to Biden.
Donny's Facebook account is suspended until at least after the inauguration, as is Instagram. And, of course, on January 20th at noon the POTUS Twitter account becomes Joe Biden's. There's a dispute whether or not it will be wiped of followers. It was not wiped of Obama's followers when it was given to Trump, and now Twitter is saying it will be wiped when given to Biden.
Now Donny is saying that he's going to create an Even Better Version of Twitter. I'm sure it's going to be just as good as his health care plan. When did he reveal that? It was four years ago, wasn't it? I'm having problems remembering the details of it. Funny, I don't remember my premiums going down or my coverages going up. Well, I am a bit older now. And Donny is such a genius, he knows computers better than anyone! Though there was that health care setback: "Who knew health insurance was so complicated?" I, for one, didn't know computer programming was so complicated. Except that I've been doing it since the 1980s.
And while Congress was under siege, Governor Mansions in several states were attacked. In Washington, invaders - let's call them what they are - forced the locked gates open and rushed the residence where the governor and his family were - one person in the crowd was described as carrying a long arm, i.e rifle or shotgun. They did not gain admittance to the residence. On guard at the gate WAS A CADET. When BLM was protesting in Seattle, THERE WAS A RIOT SQUAD ON DETAIL AT THE MANSION. Not so on Wednesday.
The New Mexico Governor's Mansion was likewise assaulted. As far as I know, there were no injuries to the Duly-elected Politicians or their families in any of these attacks.
I believe the number of states where such assaults were attempted was 10-12 or so.
THIS. WAS. AN. ATTEMPTED. COUP.
It was timed to coincide with the certification of the electoral college votes.
They had pre-printed shirts that rifted on the Marvel Cinematic Universe Civil War shirt that said "MAGA Civil War" with the date 01/06/2020 printed on it.
All of this was coordinated through alternative social media sites like Parler, which has now been banned from the Google store and is on notice from Apple.
So Donny's coup failed. The question is, does he have something else up his sleeve? We shall find out.
Currently, there is a massive call to invoke the 25th Amendment on him and temporarily remove him from power as POTUS and put Mike Pence, that paragon of steadfastness, courage, and integrity in as Acting President until after Biden is sworn in. Unlikely to happen as Pence has stated he's not in favor of it and it requires Cabinet secretaries to vote for it, and they're resigning, trying to distance themselves from being for or against such an act to avoid Donny's ire.
Donny is likely to get impeached next week. So he'll be historic in yet another way: the only President to be impeached twice! I doubt a trial can be held in the Senate before the 20th when Biden is sworn in, especially with Pence being the tie-breaking vote. And even after the 20th, can Republican Senators, with so many of them backing the challenge of House Representatives to dispute the electoral college vote certification, grow enough backbone to remove Donny? A two-thirds vote is requited to convict, and with a 50/50 split, not very bloody likely.
But interestingly, apparently the trial can be invoked or continue past Donny's term of office! AND most interestingly, they can strip him of his pension, his travel allowance, his perpetual health care, AND HIS SECRET SERVICE PROTECTIVE DETAIL!
Potentially very interesting results.
Now, was the election rigged?
Okay. You come to me with many buckets of money and say "Wayne, rig the election. We want Biden to beat Trump!"
So I rig the election. And Biden wins.
Now, if you paid me to rig this election and ONLY Biden wins, and I go to all the work to rig SO DAMN MANY elections - think about how many precincts in how many cities that I'd have to rig - to make it so Biden wins WITHOUT getting 98% of the vote, and I didn't rig it so that MORE OF THE DOWN-BALLOT DEMOCRATS DIDN'T WIN? Look, Pelosi has what, an ELEVEN SEAT MARGIN in the House? The Senate is now split 50/50 with the Vice-President, as her role President of the Senate passing deciding votes in the event of ties.
You would want either your money back or a bunch of goons to lay a severe beat-down on me for doing a pretty inept job of rigging the election!
Most of the time when the opposing party takes the Presidency, they also take the House and Senate, for at least the first two years, with a reasonable margin. It's not an absolute rule. And this gives them a chance to get their agenda going, at least until the mid-term elections two years in. Then there's no telling what happens in the House and Senate.
But that didn't happen this time. Dems lost a lot of seats in the House, and two seats in the Senate were toss-ups until a run-off election was held just this week and historically, both flipped from Republican to Democrat and the Senate went from Senate Majority Leader "Moscow" Mitch McConnel to a 50/50 split. No "Blue Wave", I had zero confidence that it was going to happen.
IF THE ELECTION WAS RIGGED, WHY WEREN'T MORE DOWN-BALLOT RACES WON BY DEMOCRATS?. Please, if you firmly believe the election was rigged, explain that to me, either in a reply or a private message.
50-60 legal suits for various reasons challenging results were filed by attorneys hired by Donny. They screamed that they had incredible evidence of election fraud that they were going to present in court! And EVERY TIME they got before the judge, the judge would say "Do you have evidence to support your claim?" the attorney would say "No, your Honor." "Case dismissed", bang goes the gavel.
A lawyer can say whatever they want in public and on TV and online. And they're being paid (hopefully!) by Donny's campaign. So they'll parrot Donny's lies to please the client. But it's a different game inside that room when someone says "All rise! The Honorable Judge So-And-So Presiding. Court is in session." Attorneys are Officers of the Court, and they take a vow that they will always tell the truth While Court Is In Session. If they lie, they can PERMANENTLY lose their status as an attorney to appear on court. They take that quite seriously, so with one exception, they have folded every time they've appeared in court with one of Donny's bullshit claims.
The one suit that was upheld? They wanted a vote inspector/monitor/whatever to be able to stand closer to someone processing ballots. Upheld. Yay, good for them.
Look. Most of the Secretaries of State were Republicans. All of them have integrity and want the election to be fair and the count to be accurate. THEY RAN THE ELECTION PROPERLY. Was there fraud? Probably a little, there always is. But not enough to flip the election around. If there was, then you have to re-run it for Every. Single. Race. That includes every senator. Every representative. State and local. Every city council person and mayor. Every ballot initiative. Every proverbial dog catcher. Do we still have dog catcher races?
If one race was fixed, then ALL of them were tainted. You can't rerun JUST the presidential race. That means you might end up with a vastly different mix in the House and Senate, especially after the shit that went down Wednesday. Maybe the Dems would get two-third majorities in both the House and Senate. That could mean Statehood for the District of Columbia, expansion of the Supreme Court, Constitutional Amendments, all sorts of stuff.
The ballots were counted. And recounted. And recounted AGAIN. AND AGAIN.
THE COUNTS WERE ACCURATE. DONALD TRUMP LOST THE ELECTION. JOSEPH BIDEN WON. HALF THE COUNTRY DIDN'T LIKE IT WHEN HILLARY CLINTON LOST IN '15, I DON'T RECALL THE CAPITOL BEING INVADED BACK THEN.
And no, I'm not a registered Democrat, never have been. And no, I don't necessarily advocate some of the things in the preceding paragraph.
I don't know what's going to go down in the next eleven days, or after Biden is sworn in. I am confident that the election was fairly run: the fact that so many seats were lost in the House, by itself, is sufficient evidence for me. Occam's razor. I'm sure Donny has something else planned, but deprived of his social media bullhorn, it's going to be very tough to spring it. And now the DC area is going to be very prepared to defend the inauguration on the 20th, so I expect it to go smoothly and without interruption.
It will definitely be interesting to see what proceedings are brought against our current Self-Disgracing President over the next eleven days.
The self-own was an amazing Darwin Award, no idea if he took himself out of the gene pool before having kids. Apparently his social media feed had a photo of himself in a manly pose with two assault rifles with a caption along the lines of "Let's go get 'em!" Well, apparently he wanted to steal a painting, except he needed both hands to wrestle it off the wall and he was carrying a taser or a stun gun. So what would any true patriot do? He shoved it down his pants! And in the process of trying to wrangle the painting off the wall, the device discharged into his testicles, and it resulted in a fatal heart attack.
You cannot say the man didn't have balls.
The woman who was shot was a military veteran who served tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. She swore an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution. She later became a massive QAnon believer and apparently decided that her oath to the Constitution became superseded to a wild fantasy with zero evidence behind it.
And if you believe there is evidence that the election was stolen or rigged, read on. I have words for that upcoming.
Our Beloved Leader, the Cheeto Benito, got himself permabanned from Twitter. I expected that to take about two weeks after the 20th, or some time around early February. But that was before this week. His personal account was already under suspension for inciting violence related to the invasion of Congress, after the suspension was lifted he tweeted that he would not be attending the inauguration of President-elect Joseph Biden. And Twitter permabanned his personal account.
Seems innocuous enough on the surface. Then my wife said that it could be viewed as a dogwhistle to his followers that "Hey, I'm not going to be there! Go the inauguration, bring your rifles! Have fun!"
Then last night he twice tried to tweet bile from the POTUS account. And they were immediately scrubbed. So Twitter has a team monitoring that account 24/7.
Then later or this morning he tried to tweet the same bile, including election fraud crap from his campaign Twitter account. And now that account is permabanned. Seems that Twitter has an policy for avoiding bans.... Whoulda thunk.
Anyone else you want permabanned, Donny? How about Giuliani? Or your kids? Please! Post on all your kids Twitter accounts!
Other Twitter permabans? Sidney Powell and Michael Flynn. Both posted tweets about election fraud. And Sidney has another problem: Dominion Voting Systems has sued her for $1.3 BILLION for defamation, and they won't take a settlement: they're going to push for discovery, and force her to reveal all documents that she alleged their machines were rigged to flip votes from Trump to Biden.
Donny's Facebook account is suspended until at least after the inauguration, as is Instagram. And, of course, on January 20th at noon the POTUS Twitter account becomes Joe Biden's. There's a dispute whether or not it will be wiped of followers. It was not wiped of Obama's followers when it was given to Trump, and now Twitter is saying it will be wiped when given to Biden.
Now Donny is saying that he's going to create an Even Better Version of Twitter. I'm sure it's going to be just as good as his health care plan. When did he reveal that? It was four years ago, wasn't it? I'm having problems remembering the details of it. Funny, I don't remember my premiums going down or my coverages going up. Well, I am a bit older now. And Donny is such a genius, he knows computers better than anyone! Though there was that health care setback: "Who knew health insurance was so complicated?" I, for one, didn't know computer programming was so complicated. Except that I've been doing it since the 1980s.
And while Congress was under siege, Governor Mansions in several states were attacked. In Washington, invaders - let's call them what they are - forced the locked gates open and rushed the residence where the governor and his family were - one person in the crowd was described as carrying a long arm, i.e rifle or shotgun. They did not gain admittance to the residence. On guard at the gate WAS A CADET. When BLM was protesting in Seattle, THERE WAS A RIOT SQUAD ON DETAIL AT THE MANSION. Not so on Wednesday.
The New Mexico Governor's Mansion was likewise assaulted. As far as I know, there were no injuries to the Duly-elected Politicians or their families in any of these attacks.
I believe the number of states where such assaults were attempted was 10-12 or so.
THIS. WAS. AN. ATTEMPTED. COUP.
It was timed to coincide with the certification of the electoral college votes.
They had pre-printed shirts that rifted on the Marvel Cinematic Universe Civil War shirt that said "MAGA Civil War" with the date 01/06/2020 printed on it.
All of this was coordinated through alternative social media sites like Parler, which has now been banned from the Google store and is on notice from Apple.
So Donny's coup failed. The question is, does he have something else up his sleeve? We shall find out.
Currently, there is a massive call to invoke the 25th Amendment on him and temporarily remove him from power as POTUS and put Mike Pence, that paragon of steadfastness, courage, and integrity in as Acting President until after Biden is sworn in. Unlikely to happen as Pence has stated he's not in favor of it and it requires Cabinet secretaries to vote for it, and they're resigning, trying to distance themselves from being for or against such an act to avoid Donny's ire.
Donny is likely to get impeached next week. So he'll be historic in yet another way: the only President to be impeached twice! I doubt a trial can be held in the Senate before the 20th when Biden is sworn in, especially with Pence being the tie-breaking vote. And even after the 20th, can Republican Senators, with so many of them backing the challenge of House Representatives to dispute the electoral college vote certification, grow enough backbone to remove Donny? A two-thirds vote is requited to convict, and with a 50/50 split, not very bloody likely.
But interestingly, apparently the trial can be invoked or continue past Donny's term of office! AND most interestingly, they can strip him of his pension, his travel allowance, his perpetual health care, AND HIS SECRET SERVICE PROTECTIVE DETAIL!
Potentially very interesting results.
Now, was the election rigged?
Okay. You come to me with many buckets of money and say "Wayne, rig the election. We want Biden to beat Trump!"
So I rig the election. And Biden wins.
Now, if you paid me to rig this election and ONLY Biden wins, and I go to all the work to rig SO DAMN MANY elections - think about how many precincts in how many cities that I'd have to rig - to make it so Biden wins WITHOUT getting 98% of the vote, and I didn't rig it so that MORE OF THE DOWN-BALLOT DEMOCRATS DIDN'T WIN? Look, Pelosi has what, an ELEVEN SEAT MARGIN in the House? The Senate is now split 50/50 with the Vice-President, as her role President of the Senate passing deciding votes in the event of ties.
You would want either your money back or a bunch of goons to lay a severe beat-down on me for doing a pretty inept job of rigging the election!
Most of the time when the opposing party takes the Presidency, they also take the House and Senate, for at least the first two years, with a reasonable margin. It's not an absolute rule. And this gives them a chance to get their agenda going, at least until the mid-term elections two years in. Then there's no telling what happens in the House and Senate.
But that didn't happen this time. Dems lost a lot of seats in the House, and two seats in the Senate were toss-ups until a run-off election was held just this week and historically, both flipped from Republican to Democrat and the Senate went from Senate Majority Leader "Moscow" Mitch McConnel to a 50/50 split. No "Blue Wave", I had zero confidence that it was going to happen.
IF THE ELECTION WAS RIGGED, WHY WEREN'T MORE DOWN-BALLOT RACES WON BY DEMOCRATS?. Please, if you firmly believe the election was rigged, explain that to me, either in a reply or a private message.
50-60 legal suits for various reasons challenging results were filed by attorneys hired by Donny. They screamed that they had incredible evidence of election fraud that they were going to present in court! And EVERY TIME they got before the judge, the judge would say "Do you have evidence to support your claim?" the attorney would say "No, your Honor." "Case dismissed", bang goes the gavel.
A lawyer can say whatever they want in public and on TV and online. And they're being paid (hopefully!) by Donny's campaign. So they'll parrot Donny's lies to please the client. But it's a different game inside that room when someone says "All rise! The Honorable Judge So-And-So Presiding. Court is in session." Attorneys are Officers of the Court, and they take a vow that they will always tell the truth While Court Is In Session. If they lie, they can PERMANENTLY lose their status as an attorney to appear on court. They take that quite seriously, so with one exception, they have folded every time they've appeared in court with one of Donny's bullshit claims.
The one suit that was upheld? They wanted a vote inspector/monitor/whatever to be able to stand closer to someone processing ballots. Upheld. Yay, good for them.
Look. Most of the Secretaries of State were Republicans. All of them have integrity and want the election to be fair and the count to be accurate. THEY RAN THE ELECTION PROPERLY. Was there fraud? Probably a little, there always is. But not enough to flip the election around. If there was, then you have to re-run it for Every. Single. Race. That includes every senator. Every representative. State and local. Every city council person and mayor. Every ballot initiative. Every proverbial dog catcher. Do we still have dog catcher races?
If one race was fixed, then ALL of them were tainted. You can't rerun JUST the presidential race. That means you might end up with a vastly different mix in the House and Senate, especially after the shit that went down Wednesday. Maybe the Dems would get two-third majorities in both the House and Senate. That could mean Statehood for the District of Columbia, expansion of the Supreme Court, Constitutional Amendments, all sorts of stuff.
The ballots were counted. And recounted. And recounted AGAIN. AND AGAIN.
THE COUNTS WERE ACCURATE. DONALD TRUMP LOST THE ELECTION. JOSEPH BIDEN WON. HALF THE COUNTRY DIDN'T LIKE IT WHEN HILLARY CLINTON LOST IN '15, I DON'T RECALL THE CAPITOL BEING INVADED BACK THEN.
And no, I'm not a registered Democrat, never have been. And no, I don't necessarily advocate some of the things in the preceding paragraph.
I don't know what's going to go down in the next eleven days, or after Biden is sworn in. I am confident that the election was fairly run: the fact that so many seats were lost in the House, by itself, is sufficient evidence for me. Occam's razor. I'm sure Donny has something else planned, but deprived of his social media bullhorn, it's going to be very tough to spring it. And now the DC area is going to be very prepared to defend the inauguration on the 20th, so I expect it to go smoothly and without interruption.
It will definitely be interesting to see what proceedings are brought against our current Self-Disgracing President over the next eleven days.
