Posts on Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Republican Mackenzie Kelly Wins Austin City
Council Runoff. Local Paper Declines
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Council Runoff. Local Paper Declines
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In a stunning upset, Republican Mackenzie Kelly defeated Democrat incumbent Jimmy Flannigan in Austin’s District 6 runoff Tuesday. Kelly ran on a platform that includes restoring police department funding and ending the city’s permissive homeless camping ordinance. She won with 52% to Flannigan’s 48%, a margin of just about 700 votes overall. Kelly’s win, and Republican Jennifer Virden’s near-win in District 10, may signal a major shift in Austin voters’ thinking. The Democrat-dominated city was already up in arms over the homeless camping ordinance, which allows homeless people to camp just about anywhere they want all over the city (except city hall)
More than 60 million people have been placed under weather warnings as what's expected to be the most powerful nor'easter in a decade begins to dump up to two feet of snow across the East Coast with winds of up to 50mph. Winter Storm Gail began blanketing areas from northern Virginia to New York City to southern Maine with powder on Wednesday afternoon as governors around the region urged residents to stay safe indoors. Snowfall in the Big Apple is set to be the heaviest seen in December in a decade with 12 inches forecast. 'Take this seriously,' Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a tweet announcing that schools
The Trump administration has rolled back an Obama-era rule-change that placed new standards on showerheads in order to decrease daily water usage and increase conservation, a federal regulation the president has repeatedly derided as burdensome.Under the rule-change, federal officials will no longer apply the gallons-per-minute limit for showerheads to all nozzles in a given shower, a departure from the Obama administration, which capped their collective output at 2.5 gallons per minute.According to the Department of Energy, the regulation change will ensure “access to showerheads that can provide enough water
Georgia’s sitting Republican Senators, Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue are preparing for a runoff election next month, and their opposition to the Atlanta Braves’ name change is popular with both Democrats and Republicans. According to recent polls, Georgia voters — both Democrats and Republicans — oppose the Atlanta Braves dumping their Native American name. The team was established way back in 1871. And even as they have moved from Boston to Milwaukee to Atlanta, they were always the Braves. Though, activists are again trying to force the team to change its “offensive” name. Thus far, it appears
Washington The US government is reeling from multiple data breaches at top federal agencies, the result of a worldwide hacking campaign with possible ties to Russia. Investigators are still trying to figure out how much of the government may have been affected and how badly it may have been compromised.
But what little we know has cybersecurity experts extremely worried — with some describing the attack as a literal wakeup call.
"I woke up in the middle of the night last night just sick to my stomach," said Theresa Payton, who served as White House Chief Information Officer
It’s Outrageous That Joe Biden Is Even
Considering Disney’s Bob Iger For
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Considering Disney’s Bob Iger For
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News that former Disney CEO Bob Iger is under consideration to serve as Joe Biden’s Chinese ambassador is a concerning indication the president-elect’s relationship with Beijing will be even worse than expected.
Iger, currently the executive chairman of Disney, has collaborated closely with the Chinese government to produce and release films in the Middle Kingdom, a venture that ultimately makes him complicit in the country’s mounting human rights abuses.
Iger is exactly the wrong person to nominate for this position which,(Snip) is among the most important jobs in the world right now. He’s qualified to negotiate with Beijing, but for all the wrong reasons—cozy ties, long relationships, and tolerance for the government’s
Joe Biden may appoint Disney CEO Bob Iger as ambassador to China or the United Kingdom, sources told the Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday.
The news comes as Disney’s extensive footprint in China has drawn criticism in the U.S. In particular, the company’s live-action remake of Mulan contained segments shot in Xinjiang, where the Chinese Communist Party has imprisoned over a million Uyghurs and other Muslims in concentration camps and has conducted a forced-sterilization campaign on Uyghur women.The credits to Mulan thank entities in the CCP including the party’s propaganda commission in Xinjiang as well as a branch of the Xinjiang public security bureau. The latter entity has a role in operating
In Haiti, they are acting like COVID-19 doesn't exist. Mask-wearing is an exception and not the norm; bands are playing to sold-out crowds; and Kanaval, the three-day pre-Lenten debauchery-encouraging street party is back on for February. This is not a case of a population simply in denial. In a country of roughly 11 million people, there have been an astoundingly low 234 confirmed deaths related to the novel coronavirus. Across the border in the neighboring Dominican Republic, with roughly the same population, the pandemic has killed almost ten times the number, 2,364. Jet off to Miami-Dade County, home to one
A pair of gunshot deaths that counted among COVID fatalities have earned the ire of a county coroner in Colorado.
Grand County, in the sparsely-populated (but breathtaking) northwestern quarter of the state, is home to fewer than 15,000 people and has been lucky enough to endure only a handful of deaths related to the Wuhan Virus. But of those five deaths, County Coroner Brenda Bock says two actually died of gunshot wounds.
Bock sounded furious in her interview with CBS4 News in Denver, and with good reason.
After weeks of pressure from all sides of the Democratic Party’s vast coalition over the makeup of his incoming administration, President-elect Joe Biden on Wednesday pushed back against his critics as he made another history-making Cabinet nomination. Biden, who has vowed to make good on his promise that his administration would "look like America," touted his choices to date, saying "our Cabinet doesn’t have just one first, or just two of these firsts, but eight precedent-busting appointments.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, said this week that he and his wife will not be seeing his three adult children for Christmas or for his birthday on Christmas Eve amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, and urged other Americans to do the same. Fauci made the comments during an interview with the Washington Post’s Power Up newsletter. He said it would mark the first Christmas not spent with his three daughters since they were born. "I’m going to be with my wife – period," Fauci told the outlet on Monday. "The Christmas holiday is a special holiday for us because Christmas Eve is my birthday,"
Intel community assessment delayed amid dispute
over whether China sought to influence 2020 election replies
over whether China sought to influence 2020 election replies
Exclusive: The 2020 Intelligence Community Assessment focused on foreign election influence will be delayed, Fox News has learned, amid a dispute between senior intelligence analysts over whether China sought to influence the election. "This afternoon the DNI was notified by career intelligence officials that the Intelligence Community will not meet the December 18 deadline, set by Executive Order and Congress, to submit the IC’s classified assessment on foreign threats to the 2020 U.S. elections," Amanda Schoch, Assistant DNI for Strategic Communications said in a statement to Fox News. "The IC has received relevant reporting since the election and a number of agencies have not finished coordinating on the product,"
Republican Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson ripped Wednesday into Democratic Michigan Sen. Gary Peters for claiming he was pushing Russian disinformation regarding the Hunter Biden laptop story.Johnson, Chair of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, spoke during the Senate Hearing on Election Security & Administration. At one point, he began talking about Russian disinformation and said that “the people peddling it are not on” his “side of the aisle.Johnson brought up the Justice Department’s investigation regarding Hunter, which indicates that the New York Post’s articles on the laptop were not, as many claimed, Russian disinformation.
You can tell someone is smarting from an inferiority complex when he insists on being addressed as “Dr.” on the basis of holding an academic doctorate rather than being a physician. Ph.D. holders who have genuine accomplishments don’t make you call them “Doctor,” which is why you never hear about “Dr. Paul Krugman” and “Dr. George Will.” None of the professors I knew at Yale, even the ones who were eminent in their fields, insisted on the title, and I think most of them would have scoffed if someone had addressed them as “Dr.” The only reason
A woman who became the latest victim in a string of random subway attacks is recovering in the hospital with a fractured neck and says there is nothing she could have done differently to prevent the suspect from targeting her.
Ruth Leon-Villegas recalled how she lay on the platform of the West 4th St.-Washington Square station in pain as suspect Matthew Montanez, 23, creepily stared at her after the attack—and no onlookers came to her aid despite her pleas. “I was saying, “help me, help me.” People were taking pictures but nobody did anything,” Leon-Villegas recalled.
During her morning show on Wednesday, Fox Business Host Maria Bartiromo alleged that an intel source told her that President Trump did in fact "win the election."“An intel source told me President Trump did, in fact, win the election. He says that it is up to the Supreme Court to hear suits from other cases across the country to stop the clock," the award winning host said. "This follows the high court’s refusal to hear the lawsuit from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.” (Video) Republican Senator Rand Paul is also questioning the integrity of the 2020 election.
According to a new bombshell report dropped by Fox News, former Vice President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden urged CEFC Chairman Ye Jianming to "quickly" send a $10 million wire transfer to "properly fund and operate" a business venture.The email from Hunter Biden shows exactly how the Biden family leveraged their name considering Hunter Biden made sure to note that he was extending his "best wishes" from the "entire Biden family.""I hope my letter finds you well. I regret missing you on your last visit to the United States," Hunter Biden said in a letter from June 17, 2017. "Please accept the best wishes
Tom Cruise shouts at 'M:I7' crew for
breaking COVID-19 protocol in leaked
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breaking COVID-19 protocol in leaked
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The Sun newspaper has released leaked audio of "Mission: Impossible 7" producer and star Tom Cruise shouting at crew members outside of London in an expletive-filled tirade, purportedly for breaking COVID-19 set safety protocols.
In the audio, Cruise can be heard shouting: "We are the gold standard. They’re back there in Hollywood making movies right now because of us. Because they believe in us and what we’re doing. I’m on the phone with every (expletive) studio at night, insurance companies, producers and they’re looking at us and using us to make their movies. We are creating thousands of jobs, you (expletive). I don’t ever want to see it again. Ever!”
Two investment firms that together own 70 percent of SolarWinds sold off $280 million in stock just six days before it was revealed the technology company had been the subject of a huge hack hitting federal agencies. On December 7, Silver Lake—a Silicon Valley investor—sold $158 million in shares, while Thoma Bravo—a San Francisco-based private equity firm—sold $128 million in shares on the same day. Three executives from each firm sit on the board of SolarWinds and they have been the largest investors in the company since it went public in 2018. In November, outgoing SolarWinds CEO Kevin Thompson also offloaded more than $15million
President-elect Joe Biden on Wednesday mangled his rollout of Pete Buttigieg as the “first” gay cabinet nominee—using a female name for Buttigieg’s husband and omitting mention of President Trump having named the first gay cabinet-level official. Biden noted his fondness for Buttigieg’s husband “Kirsten” during a speech in Wilmington, Del., as he formally named the former South Bend, Indiana, mayor as his nominee for transportation secretary. Biden also snubbed Ric Grenell, whom Trump celebrated this year as the first gay cabinet member when he worked three months as acting director of national intelligence.(Snip) “And by the way, Jill and I have always
We finally reached peak COVID-19 madness last week, when a family was ejected from a United Airlines flight because their two-year-old girl could not tolerate a muzzle. So, on the apparent theory that you can’t be too safe or too careful, even from a two-year-old, the airline enforced its zero-tolerance policy and booted the girl and her family from the plane. (snip) In case you’re unaware, doctors, immunologists, and epidemiologists are now the highest authorities in the land. Under their very own mini-Mussolini, Dr. Anthony Fauci, they can override our constitutional liberties
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department plans to unseal new charges in the coming days in connection with the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am jet that exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people, according to a person familiar with the case.
The bombing of Flight 103, whose victims included dozens of American college students, spurred global investigations and produced sanctions against Libya, which ultimately surrendered two intelligence officials for prosecution before a Scottish court sitting in the Netherlands.
The announcement of a prosecution against an additional individual would carry personal significance for Attorney General William Barr, who is leaving the position next week but held the same job
Ever since Election Day, the calls for unity and healing from Democratic leaders, the Biden campaign, and the mainstream media (but I repeat myself) have been rolling in fast and furious. We must now all join together in the spirit of bipartisanship in order to move our nation beyond the deep political divisions that exploded over the past four years, they have stated in so many words.
Joe Biden, in particular, has made frequent statements to this effect, claiming he’s ready to start building bridges and forging ahead in an effort to get things done, yada yada. Considering Biden and his surrogates have spent the last year and a half
Ted Cruz wrecking people on Twitter has become a commonality during the Trump era, and he’s not showing any signs of slowing down. Yesterday, I wrote on MSNBC’s puffy haired TV doctor asserting that people still can’t travel or stop wearing masks even after being vaccinated (see MSNBC’s TV Doctor Nonsensically Proclaims You Must Wear a Mask After Vaccination). Cruz also saw that clip and responded accordingly, savaging the far-left network’s proclamation by a man who doesn’t actually know anything more about this topic than you are I do (Vin Gupta is an ER doctor, not an epidemiologist). As I’ve said before, we have the dumbest experts.
Gmail users have reported issues with the service - a day after a number of Google's services were hit with an outage.
Downdetector, which monitors websites and online services for outages, shows reports started around 3pm ET and is spread out across the world.
Users are able to access their inboxes, but are receiving bounce back messages saying 'email account does not exist' when emailing another Gmail account.
The problems follow Monday's massive outage that left hundreds of millions of people around the world in disarray
Joe Biden’s Inaugural Committee does not want supporters to travel to Washington, D.C., in January for the swearing in of the 46th president.The Presidential Inaugural Committee (PIC) consulted “with medical experts advising President-elect Joe Biden” and announced “initial protocols to protect public health during the inauguration,” an event that takes place outside on the Capitol lawn.Biden’s advisors said in a press release that the “historic ceremony” will include “vigorous health and safety protocols,” and “honors and resembled sacred American traditions while keeping Americans safe and preventing the spread of COVID-19 [Chinese coronavirus].”Biden’s speech will focus on the coronavirus, “build back better,
Student activists at the University of Oregon are attempting to remove the College Republicans from campus for attending a "stop the steal" rally.Members of the university's student government are working to "deplatform" the club by cutting off its organizational funding and revoking its status as an official campus group. The governing body has yet to dissolve the club, though it unanimously passed a resolution calling for "cultural competency training" for all organizations during a meeting with College Republican leaders.
LOS ANGELES — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has had a rough year. The next one might be even tougher as a recall effort appears to be gaining momentum, fueled partly by outrage over the first-term Democrat dining with friends at an opulent restaurant while telling state residents to spurn social gatherings and stay home.
It’s not uncommon in California for residents to seek recalls but they rarely get on the ballot — and even fewer succeed. Several launched against Newsom faded but another attempt is drawing greater attention as his fortunes change while he enters a critical stretch in his governorship.
It appears that Bob Iger might have a future in public service after all. The Disney executive chairman, who once toyed with the idea of a 2020 presidential run, is at the top of President-elect Joe Biden’s wish list for a key ambassador post, namely China or the U.K., sources tell The Hollywood Reporter.
The U.K. ambassadorship is considered the most plum diplomatic assignment, and China is an intriguing possibility given Disney’s footprint in the Middle Kingdom. Either would be a fitting next act for the most successful Hollywood CEO of the modern era. A Biden spokesperson and Disney rep both declined comment.
President-elect Biden on Wednesday directly addressed questions about a federal investigation into his son, Hunter Biden, for the first time, saying "I'm confident" that he did nothing wrong. Hunter Biden in a statement released last week by the transition organization for Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris acknowledged that the U.S. Attorney's Office in Delaware is "investigating my tax affairs." He said that he takes "this matter very seriously but I am confident that a professional and objective review of these matters will demonstrate that I handled my affairs legally and appropriately, including with the benefit of professional tax advisors."
A health worker in Alaska had a serious allergic reaction after getting Pfizer Inc's coronavirus vaccine, the New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing three people familiar with reports of the person's health.
The allergic reaction occurred on Tuesday and the person was in stable condition after being hospitalized, the New York Times reported. (https://nyti.ms/3r2oESd)
It was not clear if the person had a history of allergic reactions, the report said.
Pfizer did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has advised people with allergies to consult with their doctors to make sure
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) called for new leadership to replace House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.), in an interview with The Intercept aired on Wednesday.
The remarks represent Ocasio-Cortez’s most direct challenge to current Democratic congressional leadership, and come a month after Michigan representative Elissa Slotkin vowed not to support Pelosi for another term as House Speaker. Pelosi is the only candidate for the position, but with Democrats projected to win at most 226 House seats, Pelosi can only lose eight Democratic votes to remain Speaker.
“I do think that we need new leadership in the Democratic Party,” Ocasio-Cortez said
A prominent trial lawyer being floated as a potential ambassador pick by Joe Biden took millions of dollars in COVID relief, even as his firm was winning hundreds of millions in settlements.
Joseph Rice, cofounder of the South Carolina-based Motley Rice law firm, helped raise large sums for Biden's campaign and could land an ambassadorship spot in his administration, local reports indicate. Motley Rice received $7.03 million from Paycheck Protection Program funds, which were intended to help small businesses pay workers and stay afloat during the coronavirus pandemic.(Snip)Rice's firm gained approval for the loans after stacking up massive legal wins
A Kenyan member of al-Shabab stands accused of plotting to fly an airliner into a United States' skyscraper after he trained as a pilot in the Philippines. Cholo Abdi Abdullah, 30, spent years training to carry out a 9/11-style attack, prosecutors say. He will appear in a New York court later Wednesday. He said to have been arrested in 2019 in the Philippines with a bomb and gun, Rappler.com reports. Acting Manhattan U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss said: 'This chilling callback to the horrific attacks of September 11, 2001, is a stark reminder that terrorist groups like al Shabaab remain committed
A brute randomly slapped a 32-year-old woman in the face as she walked outside a Bronx laundromat, new video released by cops shows. The victim had just walked out of the Clean Rite Center on Southern Boulevard near Jennings Street just before 10:30 a.m. on Nov. 28 when the attacker—who emerged from the 174th Street 2 and 5 subway station—suddenly struck her for no apparent reason, police said. Surveillance video released late Tuesday shows the suspect walking up to the victim and hitting her with the back of his hand.(Snip) He is described as about 25 to 30 years old
Former President Barack Obama said Tuesday on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” that the Republican Party is “the minority party in this country.”Obama said, “In fact, the Republican Party is the minority party in this country. The only reason they it doesn’t look like the majority party is because of structures like the U.S. Senate and the Electoral College that don’t render them the majority party. So they have certain built-in advantages around power given their population distribution and how our government works. But the truth of the matter is that 60 percent of the people are occupying what I would consider a more reality-based universe,
Conservative radio show host Rush Limbaugh gave a heartbreaking update this week on his health and the medical challenges he is facing as he deals with cancer.During a segment Tuesday on his radio program, Rush told his loyal audience that "every day remains a gift" and that he is sorry for having to miss a show here and there so he can go get his cancer treatments.“A great day to be back, folks. Thank you so much. I apologize for being out,” he started.“I remember mentioning at the very beginning of this that there were going to be random days where I would just need to take off.
Project Veritas has obtained a never before heard phone call between Julian Assange and Hillary Clinton’s State Department from prior to the publication of 251,000 US embassy cables that the WikiLeaks founder has now been charged with releasing.The stunning phone call between Assange and State Department lawyer Cliff Johnson sheds light on the efforts Assange went through to minimize the damage caused by the release of the cables.Notably, the audio from the call on August 26, 2011, makes clear that WikiLeaks only re-published the full US embassy cables
The Supreme Court on Monday turned down a request to salvage a Kansas law that required residents to provide proof of citizenship when registering to vote, despite pleas from Kansas lawyers and almost 20 red states. Kansas's red-state allies used the case to mount a broader attack on a legal test that in their view gives judges too much power in election-security disputes. Former Kansas secretary of state Kris Kobach (R.) championed the law and personally defended it in court against an ACLU lawsuit. The Secure and Fair Elections (SAFE) Act required Kansans to produce documentary proof of citizenship when registering to vote. U.S. CORRECTIONS*
As many state and regional leaders crush their small business owners under the weight of insufferable and unscientific COVID-19 restrictions, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis goes in the exact opposition direction. Governor DeSantis highlights his concern about the economic and financial impact to businesses and workers in the state.
The Florida Governor holds a press conference at a local restaurant today promising that all small business owners, restaurants and bars in the state will remain open and free to conduct business. COVID-19 will be managed, but we will not destroy families with arbitrary rules and dictates holding no foundation in science. God Bless DeSantis !
Minneapolis police, Hennepin sheriff:
recent helicopter activity combating
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recent helicopter activity combating
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To combat a rash of recent violent carjackings, Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo said his department teamed up with the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office and Minnesota State Patrol in using helicopter surveillance to make more than 40 arrests. The three-day crackdown last week resulted in 41 felony arrests and the recovery of seven stolen vehicles and five guns, Arradondo said at a Tuesday evening news conference inside City Hall while flanked by Sheriff David Hutchinson.(Snip) There have been 391 reported carjackings to date in 2020, a 320% increase from last year. The Star Tribune reported that in November, violent carjackings were up 537%
Biden calls gun violence ‘national health crisis’;
Harris says ‘past time’ for new gun control replies
Harris says ‘past time’ for new gun control replies
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and running mate Kamala Harris both advocated for strict new gun control measures during a remembrance for the victims of the Sandy Hook shooting in 2012.
On Monday, the eighth anniversary of the attack, Biden released a statement in which he called gun violence a “national health crisis,” leading some to believe he may, as president, use that as a basis for new executive action on firearms.
“To the grandparents, parents, siblings, children, spouses, and fellow broken and healing hearts of Sandy Hook, I know,” the statement said.
Earlier this month, the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court ruled that children under the age of 16 are “unlikely to be able to give informed consent” concerning puberty blockers. “There will be enormous difficulties in a child under 16 understanding and weighing up this information and deciding whether to consent to the use of puberty-blocking medication,” read the ruling. “It is highly unlikely that a child aged 13 or under would be competent to give consent to the administration of puberty blockers. It is doubtful that a child aged 14 or 15 could understand and weigh the long-term risks
Last week an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal by Joseph Epstein provoked a heated debate over the use of the honorific “Dr.” by future first lady Jill Biden when the writer suggested that only medical doctors should use the courtesy title, rather than anyone with a doctorate. The op-ed drew considerable backlash, with widespread support expressed across news outlets and among the punditry for her use of the prefix. Yet, a close examination of media coverage of Jill Biden over the course of this year suggests that for all their outrage, some of the very media outlets most
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez believes the Democratic Party needs new leaders. The progressive firebrand said it's time for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to go — but warned of a power vacuum that could be filled by "nefarious forces" who are "even more conservative" than the caucuses' current leaders during a podcast interview on "The Intercept" that aired Thursday. "I do think we need new leadership in the Democratic Party," Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said. "I think one of the things that I have struggled with, I think that a lot of people struggle with, is the internal dynamics
Nowhere To Go
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A position with strategic potential is one full of opportunities for improved prospects. By contrast a strategic trap is where every path leads to a worse outcome. Although the American liberals seem poised to restart all projects abandoned in 2016 in reality they may be leaving themselves with nowhere to go. The main problem with returning to the way things used to be is that institutions have been too badly damaged by the pandemic and its likely aftermath to afford former practices. For example many colleges are struggling to stay open. They are firing tenured professors and even that may not be enough to keep them afloat.
Mitch McConnell warns Republican
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senators not to object when electors
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The mask is off the Turtle and the Republican Senate. According to the Politico, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his lieutenants are warning Republicans not to object when the electors are certified on January 6th. McConnell warned Republican senators Tuesday during a private caucus call not to object to the election results on Jan. 6, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
McConnell told his caucus that challenging the results would force Republicans to take a “terrible vote” because they would need to vote it down and appear against President Donald Trump.
Brad Raffensperger may well be responsible for creating the most havoc in Georgia since Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman visited the state in 1864. Because the balance of power in Washington has come down to a couple of seats in the U.S. Senate currently held by Georgia Republicans, it’s difficult to exaggerate the importance of the January 5 runoffs or how badly our feckless secretary of state is likely to mismanage them. His ineptitude during the general election produced the rapid deployment of Republican attorneys who have bombarded Raffensperger with lawsuits in an effort to prevent the runoff from devolving into the kind of debacle that he presided over in November.
A Post-Trump Media Landscape
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Over the past five or so years, the media has shifted its business model to focus on making virtually every story about Donald Trump. From local news stories to every conceivable national scenario, Trump has been the feature.“How did he influence this?”
“What do Republicans think about this tweet?”“This is surely the end of the Trump administration!” Years of this constant barrage. Nonstop. The biggest mainstream outlets – CNN, MSNBC, the Washington Post and the New York Times – as well as conservative outlets like Fox News and OANN have all based their readership, viewership, and clicks off making everything about Trump.
The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs will hold an oversight hearing to examine irregularities in the 2020 election Wednesday morning at 10:00 AM ET.Former special prosecutor Ken Starr will be testifying tomorrow before the senate committee.Ken Starr recently appeared on “Life, Liberty & Levin” and clearly explained that Article II, Section 1, Clause 2 of the Constitution gives plenary power to the state legislatures to choose their electors.Starr said what happened in Pennsylvania is a “Constitutional travesty.”
Mike Rowe, known for hosting shows like “Dirty Jobs” and “Somebody’s Gotta Do It,” lambasted the Democrat-led push to forgive student loans to college grads, which would add “hundreds of billions” in federal debt.“Lots of people on this page have asked me to comment on the various proposals to forgive hundreds of billions of dollars in student debt,” he wrote on his Facebook page.“Many it seems, suspect that I’ll be supportive of these efforts, since I’ve written at length about the outrageous rise of college tuition, and the scandalous ways in which hundreds of thousands of students have been conned into borrowing ridiculous sums of money to purchase degrees that
100 Percent Fed Up – With the media’s non-stop efforts to coronate Basement Joe as our next president, and the efforts of activist judges to discredit brave whistleblowers who’ve come forward to share their stories of voter fraud and intimidation they witnessed, it’s difficult to remain hopeful about President Trump’s chances of re-election. It’s hard to imagine good and honest Americans will prevail in their efforts to defeat decades of dirty, organized voter fraud in America. In one brilliant, heartfelt explanation, Michigan patriot, councilman Matt Sealy, has given Trump supporters some very good reasons to keep hope alive.In spite of the many setbacks by unfair court rulings
Trump's End Game
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The good news is it’s still entirely possible for Donald Trump to be reelected. The bad news is that it is likely to come down to the RINOs. (snip) But there is now also a hugely encouraging fact: on Monday Trump won his most significant battle yet when seven swing states sent pro-Trump electors to Washington. Now, someone must decide whether to accept the Biden slate of electors for those states, which also were sent on Monday, or the Trump slates. (snip) The rules for choosing between competing electors are vague. Congress may choose not to count states with two sets of electors
The first inkling Americans had that there was something going on with voting machines came when Antrim County, Michigan admitted that its computer had a "glitch" and gave 6,000 Trump votes to Biden. County officials quickly backtracked, calling it "human error," but it was too late. The computer fraud cat was out of the bag. Now, thanks to a judge pushing past the Michigan secretary of state's effort to suppress information, we can finally see the preliminary forensics report on Antrim County's Dominion systems. This post summarizes the highlights.
Russell Ramsland, of Allied Security Operations Group, LLC (ASOG), wrote the report.
MSNBC contributor Steve Schmidt proved once again he's a liberal hack who will say the most outrageous things imaginable about Trump supporters.During an interview on "Deadline," Schmidt -- a Never-Trumper who cofounded The Lincoln Project -- compared supporters of President Donald Trump marching in Washington, D.C., over the weekend to brownshirts from Fascist Italy or Nazi Germany in the “1920s or 1930s.” “But we should all be terrified of what we saw this weekend in Washington, D.C., and we should think about it,” Schmidt said.“What is it that we saw this weekend in Washington? What was it? They weren’t wearing brown and black uniforms like they would have
Laure Mandeville: After the constitution with China’s strong support of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, or RCEP – a zone that includes many close allies of the US, such as Japan, Australia and South Korea – you framed the situation of the US vis-à-vis China as a “Tsushima moment” for the United States. (Snip) Why? Is all lost? Do you think China will overcome the US as a superpower? David Goldman: Nothing is lost. The West has enormous technological and creative resources. But it hasn’t used them effectively. On the present trajectory, China will surpass the US as a superpower.
President-elect Joe Biden’s choice to helm the Department of Energy, former Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D-MI), has a history of publicly promoting theories about Russian collusion in the 2016 election.Granholm, who if confirmed by the United States Senate as energy secretary, would be in charge of America’s nuclear arsenal, began pushing the notion that President Donald Trump was enamored of Russia in mid-2015, according to the former governor’s social media posts. (Tweet) The former governor, in particular, was an early proponent of the idea that Trump’s reluctance to release his tax returns during the 2016 contest might have been tied to business dealings in Russia.
WASHINGTON—President Trump still intends to veto the veto-proof $740 billion annual defense spending bill passed by Congress last week, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said Tuesday.Trump is unhappy with two provisions renaming military bases honoring Confederate soldiers and slowing the withdrawal of troop levels in Afghanistan, McEnany told reporters in the White House briefing room.The president also wanted a repeal of Section 230 liability protections for social media giants attached to the bill as part of his administration’s ongoing war with Twitter and Facebook over what he says is their anti-conservative bias.
Mitch McConnell warned Senate Republicans on a Tuesday call not to join colleagues in the House in challenging the Electoral College votes because the last-ditch effort to overturn the election results would split the party and ultimately fail.The Senate majority leader pleaded with the caucus, according to Politico, to not object when Congress moves to certify the election for Joe Biden on January 6.He said it would be a 'terrible vote' for Republicans because they would have to slash the attempt down, which would end up making them look anti-Trump.The Republican majority leader made the warning in private shortly after using a speech to the Senate to say that Biden
President-elect Joe Biden's son Hunter is planning his first solo art exhibit at Manhattan's upscale Georges Bergès Gallery, according to a new report. Hunter Biden, 50, has no professional background as an artist, instead working most recently as a lawyer and investment advisor on a range of foreign deals that have drawn scrutiny from the Justice Department. However, he is currently signing a deal to be represented by Georges Bergès Gallery in SoHo, with a solo exhibition planned for next year, sources told PageSix.
On Monday, Cartoon Network took to Twitter to school youngsters on identity and respect: "Here’s to not only normalizing gender pronouns, but respecting them, too. Whether you use he/she/them or something else, we acknowledge and LOVE you!” The tweet — which points to the National Black Justice Coalition’s Gender Justice Toolkit — also features a comic strip of kids.
“Examples of pronouns are she/her, they/them, and ze/zir!” it points out.
Also: "We can’t tell someone’s gender just by looking at them, and shouldn’t assume we know. There are many gender identities beyond “girl” or “boy.” Some people don’t identify as any gender!"
On Tuesday, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe declassified and released to Congress handwritten notes from former CIA Director John Brennan as well as a CIA investigative referral to James Comey and Peter Strzok requesting that they investigate Russian knowledge of Hillary Clinton's anti-Trump collusion smear operation. Top U.S. intelligence officials were so concerned heading into the 2016 election that the Russians were aware of and potentially manipulating Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s plans to smear Donald Trump as a Russian agent that they personally briefed President Barack Obama on the matter, newly declassified Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) documents show. CIA officials also requested that the FBI investigate Russian Correction*