The blessing in disguise has lit a fire under them.
The above-the-fold selections from today's Globe (from right to left):
"With many Republicans shrugging off Trump’s mob, Democrats pursue impeachment" by Liz Goodwin Globe Staff, January 11, 2021
WASHINGTON — House lawmakers, still shocked and angry after a mob of President Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol last week, are poised to impeach him for a second time in a little over a year on Wednesday.
The move would make Trump the first president in US history to be impeached twice, but the House vote alone would not result in removing him from office before his term ends next week.
Some Democrats, including President-elect Joe Biden, had shown hesitance in recent days about taking the House impeachment step, worried that a Senate impeachment trial could dominate his first days in the White House while unlikely to lead to Trump’s removal before his term ends, but House Democrats say impeachment is an obligation after the frightening and anti-democratic violence of Wednesday, when Trump encouraged his supporters to march on the Capitol and “take back” their country.
That's where the turn in came, and their justification is laughable considering that the war-criminal Bush has never been impeached.
“Whether impeachment can pass the United States Senate is not the issue,” Steny Hoyer, the House majority leader, told reporters on Monday. “The issue is, we have a president who most of us believe participated in encouraging an insurrection and attack on this building and on democracy in trying to subvert the counting of the presidential ballot.”
Is there ANYONE OUT THERE who takes THESE CLOWNS SERIOUSLY anymore?
The article of impeachment unveiled Monday accuses Trump of “engaging in high Crimes and Misdemeanors by inciting violence against the Government of the United States,” and highlights his incendiary comments to the crowd before they assaulted the Capitol, resulting in five deaths.
Did he lie us into Iraq and authorize torture?
Look, I really don't give a shit about which puppet is allowed to occupy the WH; however, Democrats have shown themselves to be total a$$holes during all this. They can all go f**k themselves.
Democrats are pursuing multiple avenues to investigate and punish Trump and others involved in the attack, including impeachment, a separate resolution expected to pass Tuesday calling upon Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office, and an investigation into how the security breach happened. Another Democratic member has introduced a bill that would investigate and expel lawmakers who also helped incite the riot.
The breach happened because Capitol Police were told to STAND DOWN by Pelosi and McConnell's offices as per reports from yesterday!
Nevertheless, the Wa$hington Compo$t takes you inside Trump’s failure to act after a mob stormed the Capitol and the six hours of paralysis afterward as senators and House members trapped inside the US Capitol on Wednesday begged for immediate help during the siege and struggled to get through to the president, who — safely ensconced in the West Wing — was too busy watching fiery TV images of the crisis unfolding around them to act or even bother to hear their cries for help.
Of course, several Capitol Police officers have been suspended and more than a dozen are under investigation over actions related to the riot, according to the very same Wa$hington Compo$t, for suspected involvement with or inappropriate support for the demonstration last week, and even the Defense Department is facing scrutiny over their response to deploying the Guard after the District of Columbia government and Capitol Police accused Pentagon officials of slow-walking an emergency call for National Guard reinforcements as rioters threatened to breach the building, at least, once again, according to the Wa$hington Compo$t.
This comes as the Justice Dept. pursues at least 150 suspects, according to Katie Benner and Adam Goldman of the New York Times, and that number is almost certain to grow as analysts are scouring intelligence to identify any role that domestic terrorist organizations or foreign adversaries may have played in radicalizing Americans who were among the rioters and other faces in the crowd!
We are further told that records reveal the Trump supporters who stormed Capitol and the AP has photographs of them after reviewing social media posts, voter registrations, court files and other public records of people who were maskless during the melee, and I must confess that they are Amazing according to what a little Bird told me (so the riot started before Trump stopped speaking, huh? Hmmmmm).
The narrative going forward is Republican lawmakers fanned the flames before Capitol riot, according Catie Edmondson and Luke Broadwater of the New York Times, complete with photograph of them as over a dozen lawmakers from nine states joined the crowds that day to back the baseless claim that the election was stolen as Congressional Republicans are struggling to mount a response to the Capitol riot (Wa$hington Compo$t again) five days after a pro-Trump mob moved to sack the Capitol.
Incredibly, the New York Times is now reporting that Biden plans an inaugural message of unity, in an event with Obama, Bush and Clinton (that made bile come up in the back of my mouth) as Biden’s team explores ways to oust opponents and after the FBI Quietly Releases 284-page Report on Nancy Pelosi’s Corrupt Father Exposing Her Brother as a Repeat Child Rapist WHILE THE MEDIA WAS BUSY COVERING THE US CAPITOL PROTEST Wednesday Night (Nancy Pelosi’s Name is Redacted From All Crimes), so don't count Trump out just yet.
If Pence does not act within 24 hours to remove Trump, Democrats say, they will go ahead with an impeachment vote on Wednesday, which is expected to easily pass.
Assistant House Speaker Katherine Clark said many members were traumatized after they were trapped on the House floor last week, fearing for their lives and the lives of their staff. That experience has strengthened their resolve to demand accountability, she said.
“What has emerged out of that is a caucus that is determined to use every tool we have to remove this dangerous president from the Oval Office,” said Clark, a Melrose Democrat.
What they really fear is the exposure of their criminal pedophile networks and all out corruption.
The outrage among House Democrats mirrors the emotions of many Democratic voters and activists, who have rallied behind the impeachment push.
Meagan Hatcher-Mays, the director of democracy policy at the liberal grass-roots organization Indivisible, said her organization’s members are “horrified” by the events of last week and immediately called for impeachment — even knowing it likely would not result in Trump’s removal from office.
“There’s probably a lot of people who think, ‘Why bother,’ because he’ll be gone by then, but it really is about holding Donald Trump accountable for his participation in this seditious event,” she said.
But not W Bush for war crimes because that would have also implied themselves.
Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican, said the Senate would not return to Washington until Jan. 19, which means the earliest an impeachment trial could begin would be on Jan. 20, Inauguration Day — right when Biden will begin to need the Senate to approve his nominees.
That timeline appeared to initially worry Biden, who suggested on Friday that impeachment would come too late in Trump’s term to be effective and that a trial could interfere with his goals.
“If we were six months out, we should be moving everything to get him out of office — impeaching him again, trying to invoke the 25th Amendment, whatever it took to get him out of office,” he told reporters in Wilmington, Del., but growing anger among constituents around the country — as well as rank and file lamwakers’ own anger and dismay at what they experienced last week — has lit a fire under House leaders and Biden.
Six months ago BIDEN WAS APPLAUDING and EXCUSING EVEN WORSE THINGS!
House Democrats hope some Republicans will vote for impeachment, but so far none has officially signed onto the push. That lack of GOP interest doesn’t bode well for the possibility of a conviction in the Senate, which takes a two-thirds majority vote in a body that will be narrowly controlled by Democrats.
A conviction by the Senate opens the door to far more substantive punishments than the symbolic impeachment measure, such as barring Trump from running for office again and stripping him of the perks to which ex-presidents are entitled. The Senate, by a majority vote, can disqualify him from future office.
The latter is most likely, as I think the Republicans are starting to wake up to how the Democrats are talking.
Hatcher-Mays said it would be a “huge relief” if the Senate were to actually convict Trump and vote to bar him from office as well, though she is not holding her breath given the silence or defensiveness of many Republicans.
Indeed, very few Republicans have connected the mob violence on Wednesday to the president at all, much less embraced his impeachment. At the end of the day, deprived of meaningful support from Republicans, the House may be able only to render what would amount to a symbolic judgment — that in its view, Trump committed high crimes and misdemeanors.
A tempest in a teapot and much ado about nothing!!
What a waste of time and space, and the Globe's ostensible lead to boot.
“Doing nothing is no longer an option,” said Jim Manley, a former top aide to Harry Reid when he was Democratic Senate majority leader. “I for one would have no problem just going through the impeachment process in the House with the understanding that when his obituary is written, the first paragraph will say, ‘He was the first president to be impeached twice.’”
So the country has to be hoodwinked and ripped apart for that?
You guys are f**king disgusting.
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I better be careful or the Globe will rat me out:
"Even after Trump leaves, his increasingly violent movement remains" by Evan Allen and Zoe Greenberg Globe Staff, January 11, 2021
That's the label coming from agenda pushing liars, so..... opposite is the turn as all they do is project their behavior on those they wish to demonize.
In the days after they returned from the Capitol last week, a North Shore couple mulled secession. Nearby, an Essex County beauty marketing consultant who had been in D.C. resolved to march in every rally and protest she could find, and on right wing social media nationally, the organizing had already begun: more insurrection, more firepower, more stormed capitols.
The Trump presidency is ending, but the enraged and aggrieved base of supporters he spent four years feeding conspiracy theories isn’t going anywhere. Some decry violence but claim Trump as the rightful president, dethroned by a stolen election; others, their political faith shattered, are turning to militias and direct action. Experts say the violence isn’t over.
The COVID camps await them and that is where came the turn-in.
That AP BS was the page A2 Nation/World lead, so expect a multitude of false flag set-ups like what we saw last week.
Among the New England residents who traveled to the Capitol to join were business owners, carpenters, retirees, veterans, local political activists, a Natick town meeting member and a New Hampshire police chief. In the wake of the siege, many disavowed the violence and said they didn’t participate but doubled down on their support of the president and the sentiments motivating the mob.
In the chat rooms where the far right gathers, calls to join the fight come cloaked in the same gauzy language of patriotism and historical greatness that long energized Trump’s campaign. Now, the movement the president helped create is likely to live on after he has left the White House.
Sorry, the Parler is closed!
“They don’t need him. I don’t know that they ever did, really,” said Christian Exoo, an antifascist researcher who investigates and infiltrates far right groups in the Northeast. “What they need is some sort of figurehead to rally around. If that figurehead is America, then that’s fine, too.”
The Jan. 6 attack on the capitol was initially billed as the “Save America” rally, and it began with President Trump falsely claiming he won the election and exhorting his followers to “fight like hell.”
When Trump called on them to march to the Capitol to help Republicans “take back our country,” they did — smashing their way inside in a violent effort to block the certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.
The siege left five people dead, including a Capitol police officer, and has sparked a new effort in the House to impeach Trump before his term ends. Another Capitol police officer who was on duty died by suicide a few days later.
The mob of thousands was made up of a wide cross-section of the right wing — leaders of organized far-right or neoNazi groups including the Proud Boys, Super Happy Fun America, and the National Socialist Club; believers in the online conspiracy theory QAnon; and a great many unaffiliated run-of-the-mill Trump supporters who believed the lie that the election was stolen from him.
The stereotypes coming from the on-sided Globe are laughable at this stage.
Even if they are coming, the fear is beginning to wash away.
They are a f**king joke!
They want to lump all dissent to anything into a Trump net.
The factions in the crowd represent a populist coalition that has been coalescing for years, said Virginia Sapiro, a political science professor at Boston University, and has grown powerful because of connections made on social media and validation from the very top of American leadership, including President Trump.
That is why they are closing down this blog, and why I am here day after day again.
I've actually been energized by this thing, and am well prepared for the coming end.
The more militant and organized factions are most dangerous, Sapiro said, but they are small in number. They draw their might from the mass of those she called “go-alongs:” the many average citizens who may not commit violence themselves but who stand by while it foments and support its ideological underpinnings.
“Those people,” she said, “help it to be a social movement.”
Those people?
Which "those people" are you referring to?
Is that anything like “you people?”
George and Patti Queenan, who drove seven and a half hours from the North Shore to the Capitol to hear the president speak Wednesday, said they left the area of the Capitol before the mob broke in. They were “disappointed” by the actions of the mob, they said, but they understood.
“I think people are very upset with the Democratic Party and are willing to possibly look into alternatives, rather than just letting them ruin our country during the next four years,” said Patti Queenan, 56, who is a carpenter along with her husband.
They just self-incriminated themselves.
Seceding from the union and starting a new country was a possibility, Queenan said, although she didn’t know how to launch such an effort herself. For now, the couple planned simply to wait — let the Democrats take office and regroup when things calmed down. In the meantime, they planned to write to their legislators, demanding to be heard.
That is how most main$tream Republicans are thinking, and they don't realize this is it.
There won't be anymore "regrouping" unless it is in a COVID concentration camp.
On the North Shore, 67-year-old Laura Tamagno, an independent marketer who works in the beauty industry and drove to the nation’s capital with a friend, said she was infuriated and disgusted by the violence, but, she said, she would not abandon the cause. She is committed, she said, to peacefully participating in every rally or protest there is, to keep the populist Trump movement alive.
“We’re not going away,” she said.
Actually, you are, and it's the Globe that snitched on you.
For experts who study the far right, this wide swath of disaffected citizens embracing conspiracy theories peddled by the president or right wing media or social media portends trouble.
“I think this is creating a very toxic cauldron, where some of the most extreme white nationalists are sounding very similar to what we think of as some of the more regular Trump supporters,” said Ben Lorber, a research analyst at Political Research Associates, a progressive think tank that studies the right wing.
Many will never take up arms or commit violence, said Lorber, but as these ideas are legitimized and spread, some will.
“When folks get disillusioned with the ballot, they turn to the bullet,” said Lorber. “We’re very concerned of the dangers of long-term radicalization.”
The $elf-$erving, agenda-pushing propaganda can't get any thicker than that.
When you can't win the battle of ideas, as Democrats obviously cannot, you slander and shut down the opposition like a good totalitarian.
Following last week’s siege, Exoo, the antifascist researcher, has watched as the most radical plan new attacks. At least one group he’s in is seeing membership soar.
“I think we need to initiate a ‘Week of Siege,’ a ‘peaceful’ demonstration of fully locked and loaded individuals, with select targets nationwide,” wrote one right-wing group member the day after the siege on a private chat Exoo infiltrated. “Send a message of who’s truly in charge and let that lead where it may. The first shot was fired yesterday.”
Americans would do well to take the threat seriously, Exoo said. The far right has been galvanized.
“They’ve seen how easy it is to swarm a capitol building,” he said. “They saw what was possible.”
Now get a good look at them.
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Now look at thi$:
"No money for GOP lawmakers who tried to undermine election, say GE, Blue Cross, State Street" by Shirley Leung Globe Columnist, January 12, 2021
More companies have decided to withhold political donations to Republican lawmakers who objected to the Electoral College results, while others are pausing contributions to both parties to consider how they will give in the future.
As I wrote yesterday, the contributions are to dry up now that they have all the money.
Politicians will soon be as worthless as doctors and teachers.
AI, donchaknow?
The New England companies rethinking donations include Blue Cross Blue Shield, Boston Scientific, CVS Health, General Electric, Liberty Mutual, Raytheon Technologies, and State Street. They join companies such as American Express, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Comcast, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Marriott, according to multiple reports.
At least one company, Hallmark Cards, is going one step further and asking for its money back.
The moral outrage is being forced upon corporate America. Every year, companies raise millions of dollars from donations by their employees to influence politics through political action committees. It’s capitalism at work, and these companies give generously to both sides of the aisle. In return, they expect to help shape policies favorable to their industries.....
More like EXTORTION than CAPITALISM, in service of TOTALITARIANISM!
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It was the coaching call of a lifetime, and if you can't beat 'em, join 'em, right, Bill?
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Meanwhile, below the fold we find that with Biden coming in, all of a sudden the world is opening up again:
"Boston public school officials on Monday announced a highly anticipated plan to resume in-person classes for any students who would like to attend, starting in February with the first of four phases that extend into April. The new timeline, which has the support of the Boston Teachers Union and city health officials, means thousands of older students will have been out of the classroom for more than a year by the time they return. School officials, however, said the timeline could be adjusted: A rapid decline in infections could speed up the reopening, but a dramatic spike in COVID-19 cases in the city could prompt delays....."
Superintendent Cassellius is “really excited to announce the reopening to parents!”
This came as Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York called for the economy to reopen following strict lockdowns in New York that crippled businesses, saying “we simply cannot stay closed until the vaccine hits critical mass. The cost is too high. We will have nothing left to open. We must reopen the economy.”
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Now about tho$e campaign contributions:
"Campaign finance system is rocked as major companies pause or halt political contributions" by Todd C. Frankel, Jeff Stein and Tony Romm Washington Post, January 11, 2021
The funding of US political campaigns is being rocked as some of the nation’s largest companies, including Google and JP Morgan, announced plans to halt all political contributions after last week’s insurrection at the Capitol. Some companies are targeting the 147 GOP politicians who voted against certifying the presidential vote totals — a sign of corporate America’s growing uneasiness with the election doubts and violent attacks inspired by President Trump.
The decisions could have lasting impact. Dow, a chemical company with 36,000 workers worldwide, said its decision to cut off political donations to the 147 Republican US representatives and senators would last for an entire election cycle — two years for House members and six years for senators.
Then you lose reelection and it's all Democrats, isn't it?
The political action committees of the tech giants Facebook, Google, and Microsoft donated more than $4.2 million over the last two years, according to the Center for Responsive Politics’ Open Secrets.
Mostly, if not all, to Democrats.
Charles Schwab, after spending nearly $550,000 on PAC contributions in the last two years, said it was halting contribution to all politicians for the rest of this year.
They need it to buy back their stock and prop up their bottom lines.
Major companies that collectively pour millions of dollars each year into campaigns through employee-funded political action committees are registering their worry and anger about last week’s chaos with a reexamination of their role in powering America’s fractious politics.
Oh, I $EE!!
Certain kinds of anger are OKAY!
Facebook, Google, and Microsoft said they will halt all political donations while they review their giving. Banking giants such as Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan said they were doing the same. BlackRock made a similar announcement to its employees, noting its decision was spurred by ’'the horrific events in the nation’s capital,’' but Marriott, the world’s largest hotel chain, and many other companies announced a much more targeted response: a halt to the campaign cash flowing to the Republicans who voted against certifying President-elect Joe Biden’s win. Marriott said its decision suspending donations to the 147 Republican members of Congress was motivated by ’'the destructive events at the Capitol to undermine a legitimate and fair election.’'
Once they have us all vaccinated, there will no longer be the need for campaign donations or any other lobbying loot and the $hithead politicians can't see it!
The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, a provider of health insurance to more than 100 million people, pledged to end contributions ’'to those lawmakers who voted to undermine our democracy.’'
American Express struck a similar note in a memo to all employees Monday, halting contributions to the Congress members who voted ’'to subvert the presidential election results and disrupt the peaceful transition of power.’'
Hallmark Cards went further. The Kansas City-based greeting card maker said its political action committee was asking that Senator Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, and Senator Roger Marshall, Republican of Kansas, return its donations following the Capitol attack. The committee gave $7,000 to Hawley’s campaign and $5,000 to Marshall’s over two years.
We used to call that an "Indian giver!"
Of course, if Democrats are caught in an illegal scheme or getting money from Weinstein or Epstein, they just give it back and everything is all better!
Coca-Cola is suspending political donations, aside from a previously planned contribution to the inauguration, as a result of the “unlawful and violent events in our nation’s capital last week.”
(BUUUUURP)
The beverage giant said in an emailed statement that the situation will factor into future contribution decisions, without specifying exactly how. Coke will still follow through with its plan to give a $50,000 cash donation and $60,000 in commemorative bottles to the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden.
Mastercard said that it will stop donating to lawmakers who opposed certification. 3M, the maker of Post-it notes, medical masks, and chemical additives, has paused all state and federal political contributions through March and plans to reassess its spending policy in April.
American Express said Monday that its PAC wouldn’t support congressional members who tried “to subvert the presidential election results and disrupt the peaceful transition of power.”
The American Investment Council, the trade group for the private equity industry, is halting all donations to candidates from its political action committee.
UPS has suspended all contributions for now, a spokesperson said, and Smithfield Foods, the top global pork producer, paused all US federal campaign contributions “until more facts are known” about last week’s events.
Ford suspended contributions from its employee PAC “for now” because “events over the past year have underscored the need for a broader, ongoing discussion about other relevant considerations when it comes to our employee PAC.”
What babble!
You guys won't be around after the Great Re$et anyway, so f**k off.
’'These corporations are doing something very new, and something that could potentially alienate an important base for them,’' said Craig Holman, government affairs lobbyist for Public Citizen, a money-in-politics group. ’'I’ve never heard of this happening before.’'
They no longer care, especially when that base is to be exterminated (notice how the pre$$ never tells us that is a conspiracy theory?).
Commerce Bank, a holding company with branches in five mostly Midwestern states, said its PAC has ’'suspended all support for officials who have impeded the peaceful transfer of power.” Some of the corporate decisions were first reported by the newsletter Popular Information.
The pace of corporate announcements has picked up in the days since Wednesday’s violence at the Capitol and the vote to certify the presidential election results. What started out as companies and trade groups rushing to register their outrage — with statements ranging from condemnations to direct calls for Trump’s removal from office — has morphed into going after one of the main fuels of political campaigns: money.
Some political operatives doubted that companies would be able to refrain from PAC donations for long.
’'The vast majority of these guys will be back at the table,” said a former White House official who departed last year, requesting anonymity to speak candidly. ’'When they see policies that threaten their business, they’ll have to be,’' but others were encouraged by the corporate reactions.
So it's MORE VIRTUE $IGNALING from the bandwagon, huh?
Ingratiating themselves with the NEW BO$$!
’'I’d caution reading too much into it right now, but it will continue to snowball as the companies doing this continue to be applauded for it,’' said Rory Cooper, managing director at Purple Strategies, a corporate reputation consulting firm.
’'It’s a fantastically, extraordinarily big deal,’' said Danielle Brian, executive director of the Project on Government Oversight, a good-government group. She said some politicians supported a vote against election certification as part of a calculation to maintain party support and receive political contributions. ’'This is adding a counternarrative to that calculation.’'
I agree that it is a big deal, and I'm tired of having fal$e narratives being shoveled at me.
Airbnb said in a statement it was withholding PAC support — money — from the GOP politicians ’'who voted against the certification of the presidential election results,’' and more pressure is coming. The Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump group, in the coming days will launch a multimillion-dollar ad campaign targeting companies that bankroll Republicans who voted against certifying the results of the election, pushing them to cease making donations to these and other Republicans.
That is where I will start shopping then.
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Can you say Communi$m?
That happened at the annual J.P. Morgan HealthCare Conference being held virtually this year, as did this:
They plan to acquire assets in order to support ongoing research, and you can see the technocratic bio-security tyranny being devised while you are under lockdown!
The deal stands out even amid other large funding rounds in what they euphemistically call "life $ciences."
Also see:
You can still get some ice cream:
That is while Wall Street is $till in orbit:
"Stocks pulled back on Wall Street Monday as markets around the world paused following record-setting runs. The S&P 500 fell 0.7%, breaking a four-day winning streak. Tesla, Amazon, Apple and other big gainers over the past year led the way lower, even as financial, health care and energy stocks notched gains. Analysts said a pullback was no surprise following the big rally recently for everything from stocks to bond yields to commodities amid a wave of optimism. With Democrats set to take control of Washington, investors expect Congress to try soon to deliver more stimulus to the economy through larger cash payments for Americans and other programs. That’s building on top of enthusiasm already built about a powerful economic recovery coming later this year as COVID-19 vaccines roll out. The market managed to look past much of last week’s bad news, including the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, surging virus cases, and a disappointing employment report, said Julian Emanuel, BTIG chief equity and derivatives strategist. That both speaks to the market’s resiliency and could signal a change in attitudes. “The fact that the market shrugged all of this news off, it’s ushering in a more speculative stage in the bull market,” he said....."
The economic recovery is coming even though no one wants their vaccines, and did you know Twitter slid 6.4% for one of the largest losses in the S&P 500 after it banned President Donald Trump, or that Facebook fell 4% after it suspended Trump's accounts?
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On to the inauguration!
"Law enforcement: We’ll be ready for Joe Biden’s inauguration; The inauguration will be held on the same risers in the same spot at the US Capitol where a violent, pro-Trump mob descended last week" by Colleen Long and Alexandra Jaffe the Associated Press, January 11, 2021
WASHINGTON — This time, they’ll be ready.
I'll bet!
OMFG, the in-your-face insults never stop!
Btw, the whole thing is going to be virtual so there will be nothing to protest!
The inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden will be held on the same risers in the same spot at the US Capitol where a violent, pro-Trump mob descended last week, but the two events aren’t even comparable from a security standpoint, said Michael Plati, US Secret Service special agent in charge, who is leading the inauguration security.
The inauguration is designated as a “national special security event,” which clears the way for communication, funding, and preparation between multiple agencies in Washington, like the Capitol Police, Pentagon, Homeland Security, and District-area police. Other such events are the State of the Union, the Super Bowl, and the Democratic and Republican National Conventions.
Last week’s rally turned violent siege was viewed as a free speech event in the days before, despite multiple warnings about the potential for violence from right-wing extremist groups. Egged on by President Trump and his repeated attempts to delegitimize Biden’s win, the violent mob marched from the White House to the Capitol, where they occupied the building for hours to try to stop lawmakers from certifying Biden’s win. Five people died, including a police officer. Two explosive devices were found, but they did not go off.
I don't mean to explode, so please remember it is all projection.
“I don’t want to use the expression that we’re comparing apples to oranges,” Plati said, but the event is planned over a year with contingencies, and they anticipate the possibility of extreme violence.
Biden himself hasn't expressed concern about his own security at the inauguration.
Why would he?
“It is critically important that there’ll be a real serious focus on holding those folks who engaged in sedition and threatening the lives, defacing public property, caused great damage — that they be held accountable,” he told reporters Monday.
That kind of talk hasn't been around in a hundred years at least, and is more like the 18th-century.
Law enforcement officials never go into too much detail about security so would-be attackers aren’t tipped off, but Plati said they've taken into account the siege: “It’s a poignant reminder of what can happen,” and the inauguration will look different from other presidential inaugurations because of last week's riot, with extremely tight security around the entire capital region. At least 10,000 National Guard troops will be in place by Saturday. Some will be obvious: officers in uniforms, checkpoints, metal detectors, fencing. Some won't.
That's why Trump called out the Guard, not to save the nation as some a hoping.
Next week's event was already going to be pared down because of COVID-19; Biden had asked supporters to say home and watch from afar. In keeping with crowd size restrictions to slow the spread of the virus, traditional activities like the parade and the inaugural balls will be virtual.
Are there any because they didn't show up during the campaign, either, and Biden still intends to carry forward with the in$ulting balls, huh?
Trump is skipping Biden’s inauguration, a decision Biden said was a “good thing,” though Vice President Mike Pence and his wife plan to attend.
The thought just flashed through my head: what a GREAT PLACE to ARREST THEM ALL -- especially after the remarkable rift between Trump and Pence.
The web version did a much fuller search of the perimeter.
“There's a variety of methods to ensure that we have a secure, seamless, safe environment for our protectees, but most importantly, the general public,” Plati said.
The Department of Homeland Security is setting increased inauguration security measures in motion earlier than scheduled.
Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf said Monday that he’s moved up the timing of the national special security event for Biden’s inauguration to Wednesday, instead of Jan. 19. He cited the “events of the past week,” along with an evolving security landscape. The theme for the event will be “America United,” an issue that’s long been a central focus for Biden but one that’s taken on added weight.
Wolf just resigned, leaving the post earlier than planned as the nation faces a heightened threat from domestic terrorism and from extremists seeking to reverse the November election, just nine days before he was expected to help coordinate the security of a presidential inauguration facing heightened threats of violence.
In an announcement shared first with the Associated Press, the Presidential Inaugural Committee said that the theme “reflects the beginning of a new national journey that restores the soul of America, brings the country together, and creates a path to a brighter future.”
In keeping with the theme of unity, the committee also announced that after Biden is officially inaugurated, he, Vice President Kamala Harris, and their spouses will lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery and will be joined there by former presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton and their wives. It will be one of Biden’s first acts as president, and a show of bipartisanship at a time when the national divide is on stark display.
Plati said they're prepared for the group to shift to Arlington — and for the possibility of threats to shift with them.
Will they be practicing social distancing?
One of the main problems last week was a lack of coordination by multiple agencies in the district, which won't happen this time because those agencies have already been approved to work together and have been doing so for months, Plati said. “We will have the adequate resourcing, personnel, and plans in place,” he said.
That is a lame-ass weak $hit of an excuse when they were told to stand down!
The National Park Service announced Monday that the Washington Monument would be closed until Jan. 24, but plans were still on for a major public art display spanning multiple blocks of the National Mall that will feature 191,500 US flags and 56 pillars of light. The display is meant to symbolize every US state and territory, and “the American people who are unable to travel” to the capital to celebrate.
Biden has focused on unity from the start, and he’s said repeatedly since winning the White House that he sees unifying the country as one of his top priorities as president, but the scope — and urgency — of the challenge Biden faces became even clearer after the Capitol siege.
They keep using that word, and the only they will have unity is if they kill the opposition and rule by totalitarian fear.
It is time for INSTITUTIONS to TURN AGAINST THEM in $ELF-PRESERVATION!
WAKE UP!!!
“This inauguration marks a new chapter for the American people — one of healing, of unifying, of coming together, of an America united,” said Tony Allen, CEO of the Presidential Inaugural Committee. “It is time to turn the page on this era of division. The inaugural activities will reflect our shared values and serve as a reminder that we are stronger together than we are apart, just as our motto ‘e pluribus unum’ reminds us — out of many, one.”
This as they are persecuting opponents!
The FUCKING GALL!
Yeah, just turn the page after the last four f**king years you put all us through because of your TDS and all the rest.
That isn't flying, even around here if supermarket eavesdropping is any indication.
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"After news emerged that several of the people who stormed the Capitol last week had served in the military, Senator Tammy Duckworth of Illinois sent a letter to the Secretary of Defense on Monday demanding an investigation to determine the extent of current and former military members’ involvement in the attack. The senator, a former Army helicopter pilot who was shot down in Iraq, wrote, “Upholding good order and discipline demands that the U.S. Armed Forces root out extremists that infiltrate the military and threaten our national security.” The authorities have identified a number of current and former military members as part of the mob. Ashli Babbitt, 35, a woman shot dead by a Capitol Police officer on Wednesday, had served in the Air Force security forces for 14 years. Larry R. Brock, 53, a Texas man arrested after being photographed wearing tactical gear and holding flex-cuffs on the Senate floor, is a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel who graduated from the United States Air Force Academy, and Emily Rainey, 30, who brought 100 people from North Carolina to the Capitol and posted video from the event, is an active duty Army captain. Military regulations bar troops from participating in activities they know “involves an extremist cause.” Captain Rainey, who is assigned to the 4th Psychological Operations Group at Fort Bragg, is now under investigation by the Army. She had submitted her resignation in October but was still serving on active duty. Rainey told The Associated Press she was acting within her rights as a private citizen, and that her group did nothing illegal by attending the protest, adding they were peaceful citizens who were doing “nothing but demonstrating our First Amendment rights.” An Army spokesman said the Army was determining whether other Fort Bragg soldiers went with Captain Rainey to the Capitol....."
Rainey was reprimanded in the spring after she posted a video online of her pulling down caution tape at a playground that was closed because of Covid-19 restrictions, a video that resulted in “administrative action,” and she was set to be fully separated from the military in April (but not now?).
Where are the White Hats when you need them?
"As a mob of pro-Trump rioters attacked the Capitol on Wednesday, one man in a white hat and backpack grabbed a police officer by the helmet, dragging the officer down the stairs. Soon, other rioters kicked and punched the officer, and one man even bashed the prone figure repeatedly with a pole flying an American flag. The shocking violence against an outnumbered officer is shown in a video published by Storyful last week and aired by CNN on Sunday. It swiftly went viral, garnering more than 1.6 million views on Twitter by early Monday. The officer seen in the video, as well as in other photos and videos of the moment that later surfaced on social media, has not been officially identified. The extent of the injuries the officer suffered in the attack is not clear. D.C. Metropolitan Police and U.S. Capitol Police did not immediately reply to a request for comment on the video late Sunday....."
Ready, and ACTION, because that is what we say: a staged and scripted production waving false flags!
The WaCompo article says the video adds a new layer of evidence documenting the violence that pro-Trump rioters unleashed during the attempted insurrection at the Capitol, where overrun police tried to protect the federal building.
Of course, they were overrun because they purposely left short and were taking selfies with the BLM/Antifa mobsters after they opened the doors for them. That is all on video, too.
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"Citing his role in a “violent insurrectionist attack on the United States Capitol,” the chairman of the New York State Senate’s judiciary committee made a formal request on Monday to the state court system to begin the process of stripping President Trump’s lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, of his law license. In a prepared statement issued on Monday, Scott M. Karson, the association’s president, said that his decision to begin the inquiry was prompted by hundreds of complaints the group had received about Giuliani’s central role in Trump’s attempts to overthrow the results of the election. On Wednesday when Mr. Giuliani addressed a crowd of Trump’s supporters, repeating the president’s unproven claims of election fraud and seeming to urge people toward violence. After hearing Giuliani and the president speak, members of the crowd marched to the Capitol and an angry mob ransacked the building. “If we’re wrong, we will be made fools of, but if we’re right a lot of them will go to jail,” Giuliani said. “Let’s have trial by combat.” The bar association has no power to strip Mr. Giuliani of his law license, but should the highly unusual investigation by his peers lead to his removal from the group, it would be a dark stain on a career that has spanned more than 40 years in the law. A spokeswoman for the group said that it had not removed someone who had not already been disbarred since 1904. Mr. Giuliani, who did not respond to requests for comment, addressed the complaints against him on his radio show this afternoon....."
He is acting like it's a game and is not taking it very seriously as the U.S. imposes sanctions on Ukrainians linked to him.
So who told you those 100-story towers would collapse, and why did you destroy a crime scene?
Talk about being open to blackmail.
After impeachment:
"Beyond impeachment, a push for ethics laws that do not depend on shame; Trump’s term has revealed enormous gaps between the ideals of American democracy and the reality" by Elizabeth Williamson New York Times, January 11, 2021
WASHINGTON — As House Democrats move toward punishing President Trump with a history-making second impeachment, they are also pressing ahead with a parallel effort to try to ensure that Trump’s four-year record of violating democratic and constitutional norms cannot be repeated.
Trump’s term has revealed enormous gaps between the ideals of American democracy and the reality. Even before he incited a mob to attack the Capitol and the legislative branch of government, he ignored watchdog rulings and constitutional safeguards, pressed to overturn the outcome of an election, and pardoned those who covered for him, all while funneling taxpayer dollars to his family business.
First, you will find no reality in the New York Times so it's a real biitch when you are slapped upside the head with it.
In response, lawmakers and pressure groups are pushing for a wide-ranging overhaul of ethics laws, the likes of which have not been seen since the post-Watergate era, hoping to reconstruct and strengthen the guardrails that Trump plowed through.
Democrats and ethics?
That's a joke, right?
Among the changes embraced by House Democratic leaders are limits on the president’s pardon powers, mandated release of a president’s tax returns, new enforcement powers for independent agencies and Congress, and firmer prohibitions against financial conflicts of interest in the White House.
With the BIDEN CRIME FAMILY coming in, UGH!
It's going to be another “Schiff” show!
Two major pieces of legislation, the Protecting Our Democracy Act and H.R. 1, will be the main vehicles to address the sweep of questionable practices in the Trump era, which culminated in the president’s efforts to reverse the election outcome and provoke a riot to thwart the final electoral vote for President-elect Joe Biden. On Jan. 5, a provision in the Protecting Our Democracy Act, which would shield independent inspectors general from retaliation and help ensure that vacant watchdog slots are filled promptly, was pulled out and passed by the House by a bipartisan voice vote.
As keen as Republicans may be to put limits on Biden’s presidency, they may not be so acquiescent to the Democrats’ broader bills if they are seen as a rebuke to Trump, but Democrats say they will press hard, especially in the wake of the Capitol’s desecration.
My daily paper is a desecration.
The bigger question may be whether Democrats will “remain as interested in reining in executive branch overreach when it’s their guy in the White House,” said Danielle Brian, executive director of the Project on Government Oversight, a nonpartisan group that investigates governmental abuses.
The answer to that question is an emphatic NOPE, not if it is based on the last time under Obummer, and will likely only increase under Harris.
Robert Bauer, an author of the book “After Trump: Reconstructing the Presidency” and a senior adviser to the Biden campaign, hinted that the incoming administration’s support would have its limits.
“We have to reconstruct some norms that have been damaged, but the idea is to strike a balance so that reform is effective without undermining a strong presidency,” he said.
A transition official pointed to the government overhaul plan that Biden released during the campaign, much of it focused on campaign finance controls, Justice Department independence and personal conflicts of interest in the executive branch. It includes no controls on presidential powers, but pressure is building to address the systemic weaknesses revealed by the Trump years.
House Democrats on Monday reintroduced legislation to address those deficiencies.
It was all drawn up and they were sitting on it, huh?
A measure in the House legislation, prompted by the millions of dollars that Trump family hotels collected from foreign governments and influence peddlers, would prohibit presidents and vice presidents from receiving gifts, called emoluments in the Constitution, from foreign nations without congressional consent.
Are they going to go after AIPAC, too?
Another provision would require presidents to provide a documented reason for any pardons linked to investigations of themselves or their family members, a measure partly inspired by Trump’s pardon of his first national security adviser, Michael Flynn.
Since then, the president has pardoned Roger Stone and his former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, both of whom refused to cooperate with the special counsel investigation of Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election. Trump also pardoned Charles Kushner, the father of his son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
Under the bill, exchanging a pardon for anything of value would be deemed a criminal offense, under federal bribery statutes. Presidential self-pardons, as Trump is said to be contemplating, would be prohibited.
Unless it protects the Clinton-Obama-Biden Crime Cabal.
The bill would also expand legal protections for whistleblowers to cover a president’s political appointees, and shield all whistleblowers from retaliatory investigations, measures included after Trump’s efforts to identify an anonymous government whistleblower who exposed the president’s attempt to enlist Ukraine in digging up dirt on Biden.
Only certain whistleblowers, though.
CV blowers are a dog whistle they can't hear!
Few abuses were more stark than the Trump inner circle’s casual violations of the Hatch Act, which prohibits executive branch employees from engaging in partisan political activity.....
I couldn't read anymore of that sickening $hit, sorry.
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Bloody Gina is out, then?
It's obviously a compromised court, and I now suspect Barrett of being involved in the child sex trade in Haiti.
Better watch what I type, right?
"The ownership group for several talk radio hosts across the country, including syndicated figures like Mark Levin and Dan Bongino, says its personalities need to tone things down or face firing. Cumulus Media content chief Brian Philips sent an email to managers Wednesday, the day of the U.S. Capitol riot, saying the company had to help induce calm. “There will be no dog whistles about ‘stolen elections,’ ‘civil wars’ or any other language that infers violent public disobedience is warranted, ever,” said the memo, first reported by Inside Music Media. The memo said Cumulus would not tolerate any suggestion by its on-air personalities that the presidential election is not over. “Please inform your staffs that we have ZERO TOLERANCE for any suggestion otherwise,” Philips said in the memo....."
I like Bongino's style and the way he carries himself, and I have never seen Tucker so alarmed as he was last night!!
No whistles, please:
"Vice President-elect Kamala Harris has landed on the cover of the February issue of Vogue magazine, but her team says there’s a problem: the shot of the country’s soon-to-be No. 2 leader isn’t what both sides had agreed upon, her team says. Instead of the powder blue power suit Harris wore for her cover shoot, the first African American woman elected vice president is instead seen in more casual attire and wearing Converse Chuck Taylor sneakers, which she sometimes wore on the campaign trail. Harris’ team was unaware that the cover photo had been switched until images leaked late Saturday, according to a person involved in the negotiations over how Harris would be featured on the cover. Harris’ office declined comment and the person spoke Sunday on condition of anonymity. In a statement, Vogue said it went with the more informal image of Harris for the cover because the photo captured her “authentic, approachable nature, which we feel is one of the hallmarks of the Biden-Harris administration,” but the magazine said it released both images as digital magazine covers to “respond to the seriousness of this moment in history, and the role she has to play leading our country forward.” Harris, who is of Jamaican and Indian descent, posed in the light blue suit in front of a gold backdrop for the magazine’s cover. She also posed, more casually dressed in slacks, a blazer and sneakers in front of a pink and green background, for photos that were planned for inside the magazine, the person said....."
I'm told pink and green are the colors of Harris’ college sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha, but the person with knowledge of the negotiations said Harris’ team has expressed to Vogue its disappointment over the magazine’s decision, and the cover also generated outrage on social media as posters expressed disappointment in how the magazine decided to present the nation’s first female vice president on its cover, and what is noteworthy is the Globe has basically become a tabloid.
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Bonnie Watson Coleman of New Jersey believes she was exposed during protective isolation in the US Capitol building as a result of Wednesday’s rioting and blames colleagues who did not wear masks while sheltering during Capitol mob attack.
Amanda Coletta and Emily Rauhala of the Wa$hington Compo$t say that despite strict limits on nonessential travel between Canada and the United States, two Canadian nurses active in the so-called “anti-lockdown” movement made it to Washington for the Wednesday rally that preceded the deadly riot at the Capitol that will necessitate expands lockdowns.
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The Republican Party is literally going down like an Indonesian jet:
He was a leading proponent of the apartheid’ state, and from where will the campaign $$$ come from now (unless he was granted a Ken Lay or Epstein to avoid the purge)?
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"Israel on Monday advanced plans to build 800 new settler homes in the occupied West Bank, a move that could strain ties with the incoming administration of President-elect Joe Biden. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced the move, saying it would include 100 homes in a settlement where an Israeli woman was killed last month in an attack allegedly carried out by a Palestinian assailant. The announcement will burnish Netanyahu’s right-wing credentials in a tough campaign ahead of March elections, but it could anger Biden, who is opposed to settlement expansion and has clashed with Israel over it in the past....."
That last part made me break out laughing , and they mean the Iran deal.
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If the price of Trump beating back the CV globalists is going to be another war for the Joos with tremendous suffering, fuck it.
That's not an environment in which I want to live:
"At least 50 countries committed to protecting 30% of the planet, including land and sea, over the next decade to halt species extinction and address climate change issues, during a global summit Monday aimed at protecting the world’s biodiversity. About 30 leaders, government officials and heads of international organizations participated in the One Planet Summit, which was being held by videoconference because of the coronavirus pandemic. Top U.S. officials were notably absent, as were the leaders of Russia, India and Brazil. French President Emmanuel Macron announced that the High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People, which was launched in 2019 by Costa Rica, France and Britain to set a target of protecting at least 30% of the planet by 2030, has now been joined by 50 countries. A 2019 U.N. report on biodiversity showed that human activities are putting nature in more trouble now than at any other time in human history, with extinction looming for over 1 million species of plants and animals....."
Never mind the the BILLIONS of HUMANS they plan to exterminate.
She also cut her baby from her womb.
That happened before I began blogging, and the Globe says her execution must be stayed.
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Here is the Globe's opinion of what drives the pro-Trump mob (as if they would know) so that
understanding their psychology may allow us to mitigate and prevent far-right extremism because speech has consequences in the wake of the Capitol attack, and words have consequences (even tweeted words).
All I can say is, I AGREE!
WORDS do have CONSEQUENCES -- like when you BLARE LIES about WMD from the front pages!
The Globe then tries to good cop-bad cop you as day-care workers feel forgotten in state’s COVID testing program because they are not essential enough.
Secretary of State William Galvin makes it clear the LAW no longer matters here in Massachusetts.
What obviously does is diktats from career bureacrats as he claims it is about “the voters, giving the voters the maximum amount of time to make choices,” and what will Walsh say during annual State of the City address when the rhetoric is often soaring, the pledges copious, and the hailing of accomplishments extensive?
I don't know what they are smoking over there, but it's medical and why do wait decades for them to admit the obvious?
Where are the bodies?
"Exactly 8 years ago Aaron Swartz was found dead
Aaron Swartz was involved in the development of the web feed format RSS, the Markdown publishing format, the organization Creative Commons, and the website framework web.py, and was a co-founder of the social news site Reddit. When he was 15 he joined the RDFCore working group at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), where he authored RFC 3870, Application/RDF+XML Media Type Registration.
He also published “Guerilla Open Access Manifesto”:
https://cryptome.org/2013/01/swartz-open-access.htm
Exactly 8 years ago Aaron Swartz was found dead in Brooklyn Apartment, New York.
“He was killed by the government, and MIT betrayed all of its basic principles,” said Mr. Swartz, father of Aaron.
According to words of his friend Yoichi Shimatsu:
Aaron Swartz was fighting to expose child porn produced by MIT professors & distributed to their sponsors.
The MIT child porn producers supply the State Department, major corporations, intelligence agencies, the military, and the White House.
In Pnom Penh a world-famous professor arranged underage sexual services for visiting dignitaries & sent encrypted child porn via satellite to illegal databases on the MIT campus.
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Aaron Swartz was a research fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, at Harvard and in Israel. This program was funded by Lily Safra, (who is friends with Prince Charles and was written about extensively – and not nicely – by the late Dominick Dunne in Vanity Fair).
Edmond Safra was a banker (who died mysteriously at his home in Monaco despite his billionaire level security. Dominick Dunne wrote about his being murdered.)
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https://stephenlendman.org/2013/01/aaron-swartz-suicide-or-murder_17
https://chronicle.su/news/aaron-swartz-was-murdered
https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2014/01/02/bob-swartz-losing-aaron/
https://thehackernews.com/2014/01/mit-university-website-defaced-by.html
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At least the Globe is helping scrub that Media Lab clean, 'eh?
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"Since the fall, the state has seen an alarming resurgence of the deadly virus in which case counts have soared to record heights. The levels of deaths are still below those seen in the devastating spring, though dozens are being reported daily."
At least all the political nonsense made COVID go away!
