Jess Bidgood and Liz Goodwin of the Globe Staff compares him to FDR(!) and report that he is set to be inaugurated Wednesday as president of a nation staring down a confluence of crises: A pandemic that has killed 400,000 Americans, a devastated economy, and a misinformation-fueled political divide that drove a failed insurrection at the Capitol and has large swaths of the country baselessly doubting his legitimacy, and that to tackle these challenges, Biden is likely to reach for the tools of governance, expertise, and a sense of comity that sometimes seems like it’s from a bygone era and his presidency will be the ultimate test of whether they are the right tools for the moment."
I don't know the age of Jazmine Ulloa; however, she seems to forget a vice president named Dick Cheney, and I doubt Harris will be VP for long. I give Biden six months at the most.
That is followed by some Globe anal-ysis about Biden's promise to return us to normalcy(!) as tens of millions of Americans will exhale in relief when the Trump administration ends:
"Biden campaigned on a promise of returning normalcy to the country. No place craves that more than the nation’s capital, the epicenter of the chaos Trump sowed for four years. Even those ideologically predisposed to disagree with the incoming administration say they’re ready for a more conventional government again. No more surprise tweets upending policy expectations. No more cringe-worthy insults flung at once-trusted foreign allies. Far less lying and unpleasant surprises. “I’m looking forward to a boring administration,” said Daniel Drezner, a professor of international politics at Tufts University’s Fletcher School, but getting back to normal, if that is even possible anymore, is a tall order. Millions of Trump-supporting Americans remain mired in a morass of disinformation and conspiracy theory: Nearly two-thirds of Republicans still believe Trump won the election, according to a Pew Research Center poll released Friday. Still, the incoming Biden administration promises to return Washington to some semblance of business-as-usual, particularly when it comes to advancing legislation and policy more broadly, experts say....."
With CV around, never and the Globe's so happy the tweets have stopped!
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"GOP at a crossroads: Will Republicans break up with Trump, or embrace him further?" by Jess Bidgood Globe Staff, January 19, 2021
WASHINGTON — President Trump came to power by offering to blow up staid Republican politics, and he will leave power on Wednesday with the wreckage in his wake.
Four years after molding itself around Trump’s whims and purging anyone seen as disloyal to him, Republicans have lost control of the White House, the Senate, and the House of Representatives. Their standard-bearer, the only president to ever be impeached twice, is departing with the lowest approval rating of his tenure. Members of the party have been rebuked by corporate donors suddenly seeking distance from anyone perceived as enabling Trump or the armed mob that overtook the Capitol in his name, and the most polarizing president in modern history is leaving his party with one final gift: An internal schism over whether its path back to power requires a continued embrace of Trump and Trumpism, or their repudiation.
That is where the turn-in came, and she tells not one but two lies.
The "mob" was NOT ARMED, and he is leaving with a 51 percent approval rating (how in the world did the guy lose?), according to Rasmussen, even as a new poll suggests broad approval of Biden.
“It’s pretty clear to me that there are two different wings with two completely different perspectives on our political life and Donald Trump,” said Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster. “Neither wing can win competitive elections alone.”
Trump’s ardent defenders are sticking by him even after his supporters, driven by lies about election fraud and white grievance, laid waste to the Capitol and killed a police officer. Another segment of his party still wants a reckoning, driven by the practical — if not moral — concern that Trump is becoming a political and financial risk.
Why put a target on your back?
“The mob was fed lies,” said Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday, laying the insurrection directly at Trump’s feet for the first time. “They were provoked by the president and other powerful people.”
I agree. I have been reading the pre$$ for 25 years.
As for Mitch, et tu Brute?
For four years, the president’s tight hold on his party’s base meant that it was always better for Republicans like McConnell to stick with him than not, which meant defending his falsehoods, morally repugnant policies, or deeply inappropriate behavior and welcoming his adherents to the party. Joining with Trump and his base, Republicans passed tax cuts and confirmed three conservative Supreme Court justices and nearly 300 federal judges. Some in the party credit him with helping to pick up seats in the House in November and attracting new voters.
McConnell cut him loose as soon as he could, and Trump had coattails but wasn't in the suit?
Now, the very existence of debate over the role Trump should play going forward speaks to the sudden diminution of his stature.
“The Republican brand is greatly damaged by what has happened,” said Bob Corker, the former Tennessee GOP senator who clashed with Trump, comparing him to a toddler, before retiring in 2018. “We should celebrate the policy gains, but never, ever consider having this type of person again at the head of the party.”
It's the opposite.
The Republican Party that never wanted him will soon be a permanent minority before going the way of the Whigs, and it has always been thus.
Let's face it, we have had a War Party with two factions in charge for decades, both controlled by a certain chosen group.
Who gives a f**k about their "brand" -- as we are sold a bill of goods!
After the riot on Jan. 6 left five people dead, 10 House Republicans voted to impeach Trump. Top Senate Republicans — including McConnell — have left open the possibility of convicting him and potentially banning him from holding office again, but the seeds of a Trump-fueled rift in the party were actually planted the day before the riot, when the two Republican candidates in Georgia’s Senate runoffs lost their seats to Democrats after Trump essentially turned the elections into a referendum on his oft-repeated lie that systematic voter fraud cost him reelection. The losses cost Republicans control of the Senate.
Mitch threatened him with that if he pardoned Assange, and at least he pardoned Bannon.
“We have direct empirical evidence that when Trump is the central focus of the election, the Republican Party has limits that make it difficult to win,” said Scott Jennings, a Kentucky-based Republican strategist who has advised McConnell. “The longer that he exists as the boss of the Republican Party, the more difficult election cycles we’re going to go through.”
Some Republicans have come to see Georgia as a foreboding preview of what could happen if their party continues its embrace of an aggrieved ex-president through the 2022 midterms and beyond.
Even if they don't they are done.
Before the November elections, Trump’s sway over Republicans was so complete, top officials did not even bother to draft a new party platform. After Trump lost, he refused to concede and claimed he would have won were it not for voter fraud, a lie that kept his base seething and prevented Republicans from openly discussing his political shortcomings.
Trump focused his grievances on Georgia, which he lost by 11,779 votes to Joe Biden — becoming the first Republican not to win the state in a presidential election since 1992. He pressured the Republican secretary of state to “find” more votes for him and railed about voter fraud at two “victory” rallies in the state between Nov. 3 and the Jan. 5 runoff, with the incumbent Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue falling into lockstep behind him.
“What I kept saying was, these stands that Loeffler and Perdue presumably are being forced to take are going to divide the Republican coalition they need to win,” recalled Brian Robinson, a Republican strategist in Georgia. “I have to wonder how many Democrats saw that and were mobilized by it.”
At the same time, about a dozen Republican senators, led by Josh Hawley of Missouri and Ted Cruz of Texas, vowed to try to overturn the election when Congress met to certify the results on Jan. 6. It was a legally dubious effort McConnell privately tried to stop, and one he felt compelled to speak publicly about at the beginning of the proceedings that day — before the riot, but after it was clear from the Georgia results the previous night that his majority would slip away.
“If this election were overturned by mere allegations from the losing side, our democracy would enter a death spiral,” McConnell said, speaking as the armed mob made its way from Trump’s speech near the White House to the Capitol.
Even after the riot, however, 139 House Republicans and eight GOP senators voted to throw out millions of legally cast votes. Their chief claim — that the election was stolen from Trump — appears all but certain to outlive his presidency. A Washington Post-ABC poll taken last week found 7 in 10 Republican voters do not believe Biden was legitimately elected.
Everybody saw what happened, the evidence is vast and voluminous, and no amount of pre$$ reputation can change the truth.
“You have to know that there are tremendous numbers of folks who believe that there was fraud of some sort,” said Drew McKissick, the chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party. “I personally would like to see the president have a special counsel appointed to actually investigate election fraud.”
If any state represents the crosscurrents within the Republican Party over Trump, it is South Carolina. It is home to Republican Senators Lindsey Graham, who denounced Trump in the hours after the riot but has since returned to defending him, and Tim Scott, a potential presidential candidate, who has been quieter.
It is also home to Representative Tom Rice, one of the few conservative Republicans to vote to impeach Trump, and Representative Nancy Mace, a first-term Republican who voted against impeaching Trump but has spoken out forcefully against him.
“[Trump’s] legacy has now been wiped out,” she told a South Carolina newspaper. “It is gone, and we have to start from scratch.”
It would be nice if his la$ting legacy could be wiped away as he waves bye-bye, but you know it doesn't work that way.
McKissick said Trump will “absolutely remain a strong force” in the party, and suggested Mace and Rice had disappointed voters there by going against him.
“I think there are a lot of people around the district that think she may be stepping out a little bit too far,” McKissick said.
There are other states where the Trump-supporting party apparatus is at war with other Republicans. The Arizona GOP is set to censure moderate Republicans like Cindy McCain, Jeff Flake, and Governor Doug Ducey this weekend. Representative Liz Cheney, the number three House Republican, has been condemned by the GOP in her home state of Wyoming for voting to impeach Trump and may well face a challenge to her leadership role from Republicans who believe she betrayed the president, but some Republicans are already facing financial consequences for backing Trump’s false claims about election fraud. Multiple corporations have frozen all political giving, or said specifically they will stop donating to Republicans who supported the bid to overturn the election.
“There are some members who by their actions will have forfeited the support of the US Chamber of Commerce — period, full stop,” said Neil Bradley, the executive vice president and chief policy officer of the influential business group, at a press conference last week. He did not specify exactly who.
That is the HUGE U.S. BU$INE$$ LOBBY so IT'S OVER!
The soul searching among at least some Republicans has vindicated those who came out against Trump early on.
“There is no Republican Party — there’s a Trump party, and there’s a Democratic Party,” said Christine Todd Whitman, a Republican who is the former governor of New Jersey. “Republicans are beginning to see that they have unleashed something that is not healthy for democracy and not healthy for them.”
She is criminal who said the toxic spew of Ground Zero was safe when she headed Bush's EPA.
Hey, brother, can you spare a dime?
"Ex-president Trump will face a financial minefield once out of office" by Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig New York Times, January 19, 2021
Not long after he strides across the White House grounds Wednesday morning for the last time as president, Donald Trump will step into a financial minefield that appears to be unlike anything he has faced since his earlier brushes with collapse.
The tax records that he has long fought to keep hidden, revealed in a New York Times investigation in September, detailed his financial challenges:
Many of his resorts were losing millions of dollars a year even before the pandemic struck. Hundreds of millions of dollars in loans, which he personally guaranteed, must be repaid within a few years. He has burned through much of his cash and easy-to-sell assets, and a decade-old IRS audit threatens to cost him more than $100 million to resolve.
A decades old audit?
If the Obama crime syndicate had anything on him they would have used it, or what they do have couldn't be used!
Nothing like using the IRS to audit your political enemies, 'eh?
In his earlier dark moments, Trump was able to rescue businesses he runs with multimillion-dollar infusions from his father or licensing deals borne of his television celebrity. Those lifelines are gone, and his divisive presidency has steadily eroded the mainstream marketability of the brand that is at the heart of his business.
That's where the turn-in came.
That trend has only accelerated with his evidence-free campaign to subvert the outcome of the presidential election, which culminated in the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol. In its wake, his last-ditch lender vowed to cut him off. The PGA canceled an upcoming championship at a Trump golf course, and New York City moved to strip him of contracts to run several venues.
Methinks they doth protest too much.
Trump’s family has portrayed his departure from office as opening new opportunities that were closed off while he was president. His son Eric, who has helped run the Trump Organization, recently told The Times that the company expected significant demand for overseas branding deals involving Donald Trump. The family has also considered starting a media company to connect with his supporters.
Aren't they losing enough money?
“There has never been a political figure with more support or energy behind them than my father,” Eric Trump said in a statement. “There will be no shortage of incredible opportunities in real estate and beyond,” but without a new lender, or a new line of revenue that does not require a large investment of time and money, the soon-to-be-former president is likely to face hard choices, including possibly being pinched into selling underperforming golf courses or his hotel in the Old Post Office Building in Washington.
Part of the per$ecution is to de$troy the po$$ible future political career of Don Jr.
“Trump is so reputationally toxic that a lot of financial institutions won’t want to do business with him,” said Adam J. Levitin, a law professor at Georgetown University who focuses on finance and bankruptcy, and while Trump maintains a vast and devoted following among working-class supporters, they are not, for the most part, the future clientele of the resorts that became magnets for suitors seeking to rub shoulders, or win favors, from a sitting president.
Democrats should be ashamed and embarrassed!
Even in defeat, Trump has raised more than $250 million in political donations since the election, yet while some of that money could be spent in ways that artfully, or aggressively, intermingle expenses on political work with personal and business costs, campaign finance laws would not allow Trump to use the entire amount to buttress his businesses.
After prior challenges, Trump portrayed himself as a comeback kid, someone who independently rose above financial adversity by striking fabulous new deals. What he hid from view was the degree to which his father’s fortune and a second fortune of entertainment money — the combined equivalent today of nearly $1 billion — provided a reservoir of cash that could cover repeated failures.
There will be no comeback and he will be lucky to escape with his life.
The Times obtained tax-return data for Trump spanning more than two decades, including information from his personal returns through 2017, and from his business returns through 2018. The records show that many of his businesses have rarely, if ever, stood on their own.....
That's when I stopped reading and noted how I don't give a crap about his future earning power and how the a$$hole who abandoned us will make ends meet. We are on our f**king own.
I guess CV did it's job, huh?
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That will solidify Democrat control forever with conservatives treated like Russians as the 21st-century McCarthyism runs amok.
I'm now told the large caravan of migrants coming this way has dissipated in the face of Guatemalan security forces (meaning they will quietly be let in with no pre$$ coverage as to not embarrass Biden) as the EU lashes Bosnia for failing to properly care for its migrants as they light fires to stay warm and get used to keeping your mouth shut regarding the new regime.
I'm told more than 400,000 Americans have died of COVID-19, and that the blame for the enormous loss of American life, many experts say, lies in a failure of leadership by President Trump, whose administration politicized the use of masks and left states to implement a patchwork of inconsistent measures that did not bring the virus under control, so expect the medical tyranny to be ramped up under Biden.
A 100-day LOCKDOWN is coming along with the sickening mask mandates as I'm told most people say virus is far from under control and Trump is leaving office as Fauci receives his second dose of vaccine.
I hope he RUBS the RIGHT ARM THIS TIME!
Reading the Globe is literally torture, folks, as my War Pre$$ flashes photos of little babies at me to gin up support for another war from the increasingly dumbed-down public.
I will say this for the 1950s: at least they focused on and promoted actual knowledge and achievement, not the slop political agenda and Marxi$m of today.
Case in point:
My print headline said "America's dynamism on stage" regarding the militarily-occupied, armed camp of Inauguration Day.
Time to open up Biden's Cabinet:
"Biden’s nominees promise fresh approach on national security" by Robert Burns, Lolita C. Baldor and Matthew Lee Associated Press, January 19, 2021
WASHINGTON — President-elect Joe Biden’s nominees to lead his national security team promised a turnabout from the Trump administration’s approach on the world stage, saying Tuesday they would keep partisan politics out of intelligence agencies, restore an emphasis on cooperating with international allies, and push for a stronger American leadership role.
Antony Blinken, Biden’s choice to be secretary of state, pledged to repair damage done to the State Department and America’s image abroad over the past four years at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee while continuing a tougher approach to China.
Yeah, right.
Biden’s nominee to lead the intelligence community, Avril Haines, promised to “speak truth to power” and keep politics out of intelligence agencies to ensure their work is trusted. Her remarks implied a departure from the Trump administration’s record of pressuring intelligence officials to shape their analysis to the president’s liking.
OMFG!
That is SO BACKWARDS it is beyond belief!
Trump was given BAD INTEL to MANIPULATE HIM and the ALL-TIME CHAMPIONS of POLITICIZED INTELLIGENCE is the CROWD that blared the IRAQ WAR LIES from FRONT PAGES!
Can you understand why I don't want to do this anymore?
Putting his national security team in place quickly is a high priority for Biden, not only because of his hopes for reversing or modifying Trump administration policy shifts but also because of diplomatic, military and intelligence problems around the world that may create challenges early in his tenure.
So what false flag is in the works?
Biden’s choice to head the Pentagon, Lloyd Austin, focused his opening statement on an entirely different issue — his status as a recently retired Army general, which would disqualify him from being secretary of defense without a congressional waiver of a law that prohibits a military officer from holding the job within seven years of leaving the service.
Addressing the Senate Armed Services Committee, Austin, who served 41 years in the Army, vowed to surround himself with qualified civilians and include them in policy decisions. He said he has spent nearly his entire life committed to the principle of civilian control over the military.
On China, Blinken said the Trump administration was right to take a tougher stance, but, he said it had approached the matter poorly by alienating US allies and not fully standing up for human rights around the world.
“As we look at China, there is no doubt that it poses the greatest threat of any nation state to the United States,” he said.
Blinken said America should lead with humility as well as confidence.
We won't be leading much longer.
Republicans are expected to broadly support the Austin nomination, as are Democrats. Haines and Belkin encountered no significant resistance at their confirmation hearings.
Belkin?
Haines, a former CIA deputy director and former deputy national security adviser in the Obama administration, would be the first woman to serve as director of national intelligence — a role created after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
She was given a mostly positive reception by committee Republicans and Democrats, suggesting likely confirmation by the full Senate.
Also testifying Tuesday at his confirmation hearing was Alejandro Mayorkas, Biden’s nominee for secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. He would be the first Latino and first immigrant to lead the agency.
Senator Josh Hawley, a Missouri Republican, said that he would block a procedural move to bypass full committee consideration of the Mayorkas nomination. The move means the nomination must go to the full Senate and there’s little chance he can be confirmed by Wednesday.
Several senators said it was important to quickly confirm a new head of Homeland Security given the threats facing the nation from the pandemic, the massive SolarWinds cyber-hack that authorities suspect was carried out by Russia, and the rising threat of domestic extremists.....
That huge hack coverage has faded, hmmm.
So sick of being propagandized, and it's about to reach tsunami levels.
Democrats are now in a bind regarding Joe Biden’s son Hunter as a subpoena seeking documents from Hunter Biden asked for information related to more than two dozen entities, including Ukraine gas company Burisma, according to a person familiar with a Justice Department tax investigation of President-elect Joe Biden’s son. The breadth of the subpoena, issued Tuesday, underscores the wide-angle lens prosecutors are taking as they examine the younger Biden’s finances and international business ventures, with 3 reasons why the Bidens should be worried as Trump leaves subversive bureaucratic moles behind while pushing ahead with the vaccines.
According to reports, Biden will nominate Denis McDonough, a former chief of staff to President Barack Obama, to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs, and he has picked Susan E. Rice, Obama’s former national security adviser, to run the White House Domestic Policy Council (she is the one who unmasked Flynn, along with $cum Samatha Power), while Boston native Annie Tomasini to be a top staffer in his White House (the former Boston Latin and Boston University basketball star will ‘let Biden be Biden,’ ugh.
It's all based on merit, though, despite the bleak record that appeared to fell a Biden favorite from Massachusetts, so he went with Boston’s Gina McCarthy as White House climate coordinator while looking to expanding access into ACA insurance marketplaces.
Pete Buttigieg will be transportation secretary, elevating his onetime rival to a key role in the incoming administration’s push to rebuild American infrastructure and the economy, according to three people familiar with the decision as Biden and Harris take their oaths and shots and as vaccine distribution is accelerated with the understanding that there are more vaccines to follow, it has to be a top national priority and our last hope is to vaccinate the American people for something that doesn't exist, won't kill you, and won't prevent infection and transmission if it did!
It's an incentive to grab hold of the opportunities ahead as the ocean’s heroic potential could be realized under Biden despite his choice of Vilsack for USDA raising fears for small farmers (Vilsack is a big corporate AG/GMO guy from the Obama days).
I'm told Biden may nominate a Connecticut schools chief as education secretary, a Latino who is the right pick to lead education through pandemic, while Alex Padilla replaces Harris in the U.S. Senate and Walsh labors to make it to D.C. (he won't be running for mayor again, ooops, as that race heats up).
After Biden tapped two longtime officials for top Pentagon roles I was told that some Guantanamo prisoners may be released to make room for Trump folk after Biden brings Republicans on board during this mean season. Says he will Burn down the CIA and oust the Deep $tate.
The Globe says Merrick Garland may be the attorney general America needs to undo the damage Trump did to the DoJ, as more nominees are introduced (her legacy is in the hands of a successor she didn’t pick) and the Broad Institute’s Eric Lander will become Biden’s science adviser as new small-business loans and state grants target entrepreneurs of color and those hardest hit are rolled out.
Biden is also nominating New York emergency department commissioner Deanne Criswell to serve as the Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator and has tapped former CIA deputy director David Cohen to return to the agency in the same role he served during the Obama administration, despite the pressure to pick an Asian American or Pacific Islander in what I'm told is the most diverse Cabinet ever!
"President-elect Joe Biden said Tuesday that he will nominate Pennsylvania’s top health official, Rachel Levine, to be his assistant secretary of health. Levine, a pediatrician, would become the first openly transgender federal official to be confirmed by the US Senate. "Dr. Rachel Levine will bring the steady leadership and essential expertise we need to get people through this pandemic — no matter their zip code, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability — and meet the public health needs of our country in this critical moment and beyond," Biden said in a statement. ’'She is a historic and deeply qualified choice to help lead our administration’s health efforts.’' Levine serves as Pennsylvania’s secretary of health and has been leading the state’s public health response to the coronavirus pandemic. Last year, as Levine rose to prominence leading Pennsylvania’s pandemic response, she became the target of nasty attacks on her gender identity. One in particular made headlines and earned a scathing rebuke from the governor: A photo of a man sitting in a carnival dunk tank wearing a floral print dress and a long blond wig. The man said he was going for a Marilyn Monroe look, but organizers of the carnival fund-raiser in Bloomsburg, Pa., said he resembled Levine...."
She also ordered sick people to be stuck in nursing homes while moving her mother out of one if memory serves.
That comes as a dozen members of the National Guard have been removed from inauguration duty as the federal government screens troops involved for security concerns because extremism will not be tolerated in the US military (did he say that with a straight face?).
A final salute:
"The White House is having trouble finding guests for President Trump’s send-off ceremony on Wednesday. Several prominent Republicans who were invited to the event at Joint Base Andrews early Wednesday do not plan to attend, including the Senate and House GOP leaders, Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy, according to people familiar with the matter. The White House has made some curious choices for its invitation list. Several former Trump aides who became outspoken critics of the president received invitations, including financier Anthony Scaramucci, who was the White House communications director for 11 days in 2017, but by 2019 was publicly advocating for Trump’s impeachment. Former chief of staff John Kelly and former national security adviser John Bolton and his deputy, Charlie Kupperman, were also invited. None of them will attend. Nor is Vice President Mike Pence. Aides said they anticipate a mixture of junior staff and some of Trump’s most loyal supporters. Two former Trump aides who plan to be there, though: Boris Epshteyn, who worked on Trump’s first campaign, and the president’s original White House press secretary, Sean Spicer."
Based on the list, it appears that Trump invited all the backstabbing traitors knowing they would not attend.
They were treated differently back in the day, but we are under Crown rule now in more ways than one:
"Thomas Edward Caldwell, 65, of Clarke County, Va., was taken into custody before 7 a.m. on four federal counts, including conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States in the attack on the Capitol. The conspiracy charge is reserved for offenses interfering with or obstructing the lawful operation of government. He sent a message to Jessica Watkins, a 38-year-old US Army veteran who was arrested late Sunday. Meanwhile, federal authorities have arrested a woman whose former romantic partner says she took a laptop from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office during the riot. A federal prosecutor said in court Tuesday that Riley June Williams will likely be charged with stealing the computer from Pelosi’s office. Federal authorities are preparing two new felony charges of stealing government property and aiding and abetting against the Harrisburg resident, Assistant US Attorney Christian T. Haugsby told a judge. Williams was arrested Monday, according to a Justice Department official. The FBI said in an arrest warrant Sunday that Williams hasn’t been charged with theft but only with illegally entering the Capitol and with disorderly conduct. FBI officials said a caller claiming to be a former partner of Williams said friends of hers showed him a video of Williams taking a laptop computer or hard drive from Pelosi’s office. The caller alleged that Williams intended to send the device to a friend in Russia who planned to sell it to that country’s foreign intelligence service, but that plan fell through and she either has the device or destroyed it. The FBI says the matter remains under investigation. Pelosi’s deputy chief of staff, Drew Hammill, confirmed Jan. 8 that a laptop was taken from a conference room but said “it was a laptop that was only used for presentations.’' Williams’ mother, who lives with her in Harrisburg, Pa., told ITV reporters that her daughter had taken a sudden interest in President Trump’s politics and “far-right message boards.” Her father, who lives in the Harrisburg suburb of Camp Hill, told local law enforcement that he and his daughter went to Washington on the day of the protest but didn’t stay together, meeting up later to return to Harrisburg, the FBI said."
With all due respect, they smell like psyop agents.
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It's gut-check time for Republicans (that means you, Governor Baker) in the oppressive blue state with a festering sore for a capital.
People are happy about the possibility of peace breaking out and are confident in the future going forward.
There are finally glimmers of hope because Biden could be the winner America needs and without these people:
"Straight Pride Parade organizer, Natick Town Meeting member arrested for alleged roles in US Capitol riot Jan. 6" by Travis Andersen and Tonya Alanez Globe Staff, January 19, 2021
An organizer of the controversial Straight Pride Parade held in Boston in 2019 and a polarizing Natick Town Meeting member were both arrested Tuesday on charges stemming from the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol, which left at least five people dead, including a police officer.
FBI agents on Tuesday morning arrested Mark G. Sahady, 46, at his Malden home, and Suzanne Ianni, 59, at her home in Natick, on misdemeanor trespassing and disorderly conduct charges.
It was Select Board chairman Jonathan Freedman(!) that ratted her out.
The two have claimed publicly to be the organizers of 11 buses that transported New Englanders to Washington, D.C.
Court filings included a photo of Ianni and Sahady, with about six others, on a bus en route to Washington before the riot. The group is all smiles as they give a thumbs-up. One of the men in the photo is wearing a shirt bearing the emblem of the Proud Boys, a militant far-right group.
Proud Boys are one of at least 15 hate groups functioning in Massachusetts, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
During court proceedings Tuesday, prosecutors accused the pair of participating in an “organized hoard whose actions collectively led” to the killing of a police officer and the deaths of four others.
Should have joined BLM and Antifa instead.
Ianni and Sahady appeared via Zoom before US Magistrate Judge Jennifer Boal in separate hearings in US District Court. Ianni was released on her own recognizance; Sahady will remain jailed until a detention hearing scheduled for Thursday.
Numerous photos of Ianni and Sahady posted to social media, including one of Ianni cloaked in a pink and blue “Straight Pride” flag and another of her pumping her fist inside the Capitol, helped agents build their case.
Ianni, who is facing a petition calling for her ouster from the Natick Town Meeting, was ordered to stay away from the Massachusetts State House and any federal buildings, and cannot attend any rallies, demonstrations or protests without permission from probation.
Can you say COMMUNIST TYRANNY, folks?
I knew you could!
Btw, she will be shot on sight if she disobeys.
Will be shot dead, literally. Man, 23, shot by Wakefield police after he allegedly rushed at officers with knife; mom found slain in home Middlesex District Attorney Marian T. Ryan during an afternoon briefing identified the deceased woman as 61-year-old Pamela Wood, who worked in the Wakefield Public Schools. Ryan identified Wood’s son as 23-year-old Timothy Martin of Manchester, N.H.
Sahady, a US Army veteran, is listed as vice president of “Super Happy Fun America,” the group behind the Straight Pride Parade and other demonstrations in Boston. Federal prosecutors argued that “he presents a serious risk of obstruction of justice if released.”
Sahady’s lawyers were flabbergasted, saying their client had no criminal history. “It is beyond belief that there is a claim that he wants to obstruct justice or intimidate witnesses,” Sahady’s lawyer Rinaldo Del Gallo said.
They shouldn't be.
WAKE UP!
“They probably have issues with him being a part of Super Happy Fun America,” Del Gallo said, or because “he’s a Trump supporter.” Del Gallo had earlier said in a statement that his client was not involved in any “plan, design, or collusion with others to break the law. Nor did he break the law himself.”
We know that.
Prosecutors included a stream of tweets made by Sahady and Super Happy Fun America in an affidavit. On Dec. 20, Super Happy Fun America posted a tweet that said: “SHFA will be in DC once again on Jan. 6 to get wild.”
Sahady tweeted on Dec. 20: “It is important that millions of Americans show up [to D.C. on Jan. 6] to support the legitimate President, Donald Trump, and show Democrats what they will be facing if they continue to try and steal the Presidency.”
On Dec. 31: “We have 7 buses coming.”
On Jan. 4: “January 6 - Washington, DC - It Begins.”
Ianni provoked controversy in Natick after she was photographed inside the Capitol. Despite the petition calling for her removal, town officials say they have no legal mechanism at their disposal to kick her out of Town Meeting.
“The arrest does not change the circumstances,” said Jonathan Freedman, chair of the Natick Select Board. The board fully supports expression of First Amendment rights but not the Jan. 6 melee at the US Capitol, Freedman added.
“It was an attack on democracy itself, and we strongly condemn it,” he said.
If convicted as charged, Ianni and Sahady each face a maximum sentence of not more than one year in federal prison and a $100,000 fine.
The Justice Department has “brought charges against more than 100 people and has investigations of many others underway,” Acting US Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen said in a statement.
Other New England residents facing charges in connection with the riot are Thomas R. Gallagher, 61, of New Hampshire, and David L. Ross, 33, of Pittsfield, who also were arrested on similar charges.
The insurrection on Jan. 6 began after many in the mob had heard President Trump at a rally exhort his supporters to “fight like hell” and walk to the Capitol in an effort to disrupt the certification of Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential election, a process that was halted for hours amid the chaos but wrapped up early on Jan. 7.
Then why did they attack while he was still speaking down the street?
Time for Taps.
There will be no parades as long as CV is around (was located at the bottom of page B4 and I literally missed it making notes).
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Now here's the pitch....
It wound up in a fairly stable place by year’s end as the level of buyer activity we’ve seen in the market since Labor Day is unprecedented and has resulted in record-setting sales during the 2020 fall market,” after the economy began to reopen in June.
Never mind the di$pos$$e$$ion-campaign that is about to begin as the Department of Housing and Urban Development has extended a moratorium on evictions and foreclosures on home mortgages it insures against default after another month, another record for Boston-area real estate prices as rates are at their lowest in 12 years.
They did edge up slightly after the slap on the a$$ as the long period of record-low rates on home loans could soon be over.
That's the economy Biden is inheriting as State Street eliminates 1,200 jobs.
At least Goldman Sachs had a record year as the consolidations lead to Communism (even Lenin noted that).
Time to lay my head down on the Pillow and put this post to bed:
"My Pillow chief executive Mike Lindell — an avid President Trump backer who has repeatedly pressed debunked claims the 2020 election was rigged — said Kohl’s, Bed Bath & Beyond, Wayfair, and other retailers are dropping his products. The moves, which Lindell referenced during a weekend interview, come as corporate America is rethinking its political affiliations following the attack on the US Capitol. Lindell, a major Republican donor, has repeatedly claimed that he has ’'proof’' the presidential election was stolen from Trump during interviews with right-wing media. Lindell has been a fervent champion of Trump since summer 2016, when the two men discussed the CEO’s business and all-American manufacturing process during a 30-minute meeting. Lindell told the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal that Melania Trump asked for a pair of his pillows. Lindell has been in frequent contact with Trump throughout his administration. Last week, parts of Lindell’s notes were photographed by The Washington Post ahead of a White House meeting that captured such phrases as ’'election issues’' and ’'martial law if necessary.’' Over the weekend, My Pillow ran a promotion where customers who used the coupon code ’'QAnon’' had their orders discounted. The code no longer worked as of Monday....."
So that is what is under the pillow, huh?
$weet dreams:
"Wall Street kicked off a holiday-shortened week with broad gains for stocks Tuesday, as the market recovered most of its losses from last week. Markets have been rising on enthusiasm about a coming economic recovery as COVID-19 vaccines roll out and Washington gets set to try for another massive round of stimulus for the economy. Janet Yellen, President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee to be Treasury secretary, is calling on Congress to do more to boost the economy....."
I'm told Republicans are blocking it even thought they have no power.
Now get your nose back to the Grindstone.
