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— Republican Party of Arizona (@AZGOP) December 28, 2020

Washington Post: “The House mustered enough votes Monday to reject President Trump’s veto of a $741 billion defense authorization bill, setting up the first congressional override of his presidency just days before he exits office. Trump made good on repeated threats to veto the legislation last week, when he sent the bill back to Congress with a laundry list of objections. Among the president’s complaints were that it ordered the Pentagon to change the names of military installations commemorating Confederate generals; restricted his ability to pull U.S. troops out of Germany, South Korea and Afghanistan; and did not repeal an unrelated law giving certain liability protections to technology companies. His move led some of his stalwart supporters, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, to announce that they would not cross the president’s veto, even though they had voted for the defense bill. But despite those gestures of solidarity, the president has never had the numbers to sustain a veto, according to congressional officials”

“Breaking News: In Pennsylvania there were 205,000 more votes than there were voters. This alone flips the state to President Trump.”

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 28, 2020

AP, October 19th, 2020: “Voter registration in Pennsylvania has already hit a record high in this cycle. The total number of state voters has passed 9 million, state elections official said Monday. That includes more than 4.2 million Democrats, more than 3.5 million Republicans, just over 895,000 independents and about 407,000 voters registered with another party.”

6,915,283 ballots combined were cast for Biden, Trump, and Jorgensen in Pennsylvania in the 2020 election, per the Secretary of State’s office. It’s possible some MAGA dickhead that Trump read on Twitter used outdated info from 2018 which shows about 6,469,000 registered voters to make this stupid claim, but that math doesn’t even work out – it’d be 446,000 “more votes than there were voters” then. So who knows where this fat dumb bastard is getting this number from.

“BREAKING: House votes to increase stimulus checks to $2000. Now heads to Senate. Almost all Democrats voted for it. Most Republicans voted against it. Never forget that.” —Scott Dworkin

Washington Post: “Paul De Santis and Jodie Helms both say the economy looks different than it did just a few weeks ago. De Santis, 47, a Democrat in Freeland, Md., who called the economy ‘poor’ this fall, is now upbeat, while Helms, 40, a Republican in Ballinger, Tex., fears the end of what she recently saw as ‘excellent’ conditions. The economy, which continues its slow healing from the pandemic recession, actually isn’t all that different than it was in the fall. But there has been a change in what increasingly determines opinions about the economic landscape: the identity of the party controlling the White House.”

“‘The outlook with the Biden administration coming in to replace the Trump administration is what will improve things,’ De Santis said. ‘I’m 100 percent sure if Biden ends up in the White House, it won’t be good for my family,’ said Helms, who retains hope that President Trump will overturn the election outcome. Biden urges a new economic relief package and warns again of a ‘dark winter’ ahead. The views of De Santis and Helms symbolize a striking partisan divide that emerged in the Trump era – when Republicans began routinely viewing the economy in a better light than Democrats – and now may be hardening into permanence. Over the past five months – and especially since the presidential election – the parties have switched places. Democrats became notably more buoyant, while Republicans just as quickly turned gloomy.”

CNBC: “A federal judge on Monday for the second time this year denied bail to Ghislaine Maxwell, the wealthy British socialite accused of grooming underage girls to be sexually abused by money manager Jeffrey Epstein. Judge Alison Nathan found, just has she did when she first denied bail in July, that Maxwell poses a serious flight risk, given her wealth, possession of citizenship in multiple countries and the severity of the charges she faces. ‘The Court … finds that the Defendant’s proposed bail conditions would not reasonably assure her appearance at future proceedings,’ Nathan said in her ruling in Manhattan federal court. ‘The Court cocludes that none of the new information that the Defendant presented in support of her application has a material bearing on the Court’s determination that she poses a flight risk,’ the judge wrote. Maxwell, who is being held in a Brooklyn federal jail. has pleaded not guilty in the case.”

On January 6 on the House floor, I will OBJECT to fraudulent electoral votes from several states at the Capitol. But I cannot do this alone. I must have a grassroots army behind me. We have a rapidly growing group of House Members and Senators. But more pressure is needed! First: Sign your petition to FIGHT FOR TRUMP. After you sign, call your Representative and Senators urging they FIGHT FOR TRUMP and OBJECT to the voter fraud from several states. Representative: 202-225-3121 Senators: 202-224-3121 Sign your petition to FIGHT FOR TRUMP and STOP THE STEAL! — Marjorie Taylor Greene Republican-elect (GA-14)

— Marjorie Taylor Greene RealMarjorieGreene Tuesday, December 22, 2020

Reuters: “More than 14% of polling stations in the Central African Republic failed to operate during Sunday’s presidential and legislative election due to armed rebels who attacked voters and barred electoral staff, the electoral commission said on Monday. Around 800 out of a total 5,408 polling stations nationwide did not open, Theophile Momokouama, an executive of the electoral authority, told a news conference in Bangui.”

“‘There were localities where voters were brutalized, threatened with death. The electoral staff were forbidden to deploy on the ground,’ Momokouama said. The diamond- and gold-rich nation of 4.7 million has struggled to stabilise due to a successive waves of militia violence since 2013 that have killed thousands and forced more than a million from their homes. ‘As of today, we do not know the proportion of Central Africans who were able to vote,’ Momokouama said.”

By CNN photojournalist Pete Morris via White House Correspondent Kaitlan Collins.

“Former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is trying again to get money from ‘We Build the Wall,’ a charity that offered him $20,000 a month which he cannot try to access until after ex-White House strategist Steve Bannon and others stand trial for allegedly defrauding its donors. Two weeks after a federal judge refused to let him access the charity’s funds, Kobach took his appeal to the Second Circuit on Monday.”

“Kobach has not been charged along with We Build the Wall’s founder Brian Kolfage and the charity’s officials Andrew Badolato, Timothy Shea, and Bannon, whom federal prosecutors accuse of duping those who contributed to the $25 million crowdfunded project with the expectation that ‘100%’ of the money would go toward constructing a barrier on the U.S. southern border. Instead, Bannon pocketed at least $1 million of the money, and Kolfage took $350,000 plus went on a spending spree to buy a Jupiter Marine yacht called the Warfighter, a Range Rover SUV, a golf cart, jewelry, and cosmetic surgery, prosecutors say. As general counsel, Kobach was compensated handsomely in attorneys’ fees that the government does not allege to be improper. On Dec. 14, U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres rejected Kobach’s argument that blocking the money interfered with his due process rights” – MSN News

Bongino.com: “Reportedly, the FBI now believes the bomber to be Anthony Quinn Warner. Quinn’s father was an AT&T employee and died of dementia at 78. Reportedly, Quinn believed 5G technology was killing people and that it caused his father’s condition. News reports are describing this as a ‘conspiracy theory,’ but it really isn’t. Studies have been inconclusive, but there certainly is enough scientific data out there about the potential negative effects of cell phone radiation to give people pause, even if it’s not possible to definitively point to it as a significant danger. In fact, there has been a big health debate over the safety of 5G in nations like Switzerland. That should have happened here, too. Allegedly, Warner believed he would be hailed as a hero in the fight against 5G for setting off a bomb. Here a little pro tip: Unless you are a special forces operative fighting overseas, any time you start believing that you are going to be cheered as a hero for murdering people or blowing up a building, it’s probably time to check in with a psychologist.”

“Additionally, the FBI believes Quinn was in the RV when it blew up. Reportedly, he had cancer and had given his home away and told the place he worked he was going to retire. Putting it all together, it appears that we had someone who believed he was coming to the end of his life that had a grudge against AT&T and may have been delusional enough to believe that people would support what he did. It’s not a rational reason to do something so destructive, but rational people aren’t the ones setting off bombs or committing mass murders.”

“This civil action seeks an expedited declaratory judgment finding that the elector dispute resolution provisions in Section 15 of the Electoral Count Act, 3 U.S.C. §§ 5 and 15, are unconstitutional because these provisions violate the Electors Clause and the Twelfth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. U.S. CONST. art. II, § 1, cl. 1 & Amend. XII. Plaintiffs also request emergency injunctive relief required to effectuate the requested declaratory judgment. 2. These provisions of Section 15 of the Electoral Count Act are unconstitutional insofar as they establish procedures for determining which of two or more competing slates of Presidential Electors for a given State are to be counted in the Electoral College, or how objections to a proffered slate are adjudicated, that violate the Twelfth Amendment.”

“This violation occurs because the Electoral Count Act directs the Defendant, Vice President Michael R. Pence, in his capacity as President of the Senate and Presiding Officer over the January 6, 2021 Joint Session of Congress: (1) to count the electoral votes for a State that have been appointed in violation of the Electors Clause; (2) limits or eliminates his exclusive authority and sole discretion under the Twelfth Amendment to determine which slates of electors for a State, or neither, may be counted; and (3) replaces the Twelfth Amendment’s dispute resolution procedure – under which the House of Representatives has sole authority to choose the President” – Text of an actual federal civil complaint by a member of the United States House of Representatives against the Vice President of The United States.

“Jan. 16–20, 2021 had been exed out on the Trump Hotel D.C.’s reservation calendar since at least early June 2020, as 1100 Pennsylvania reported at the time. Representatives from the Trump Organization did not reply to 1100 Pennsylvania’s inquiry (as is their custom) about the sudden availability of rooms around the inauguration.”

“In May 2019, however, the hotel’s managing director Mickael Damelincourt, called it ‘#ignorance’ to think guests booked the Trump Hotel D.C. for reasons other than its quality. The lowest rates at the newly available rooms at the Trump Hotel D.C. for the five days surrounding Joseph R. Biden Jr’s inauguration range from $886 to $2,225 a night. Meanwhile, the lowest room rates at the Trump Hotel D.C. for Jan. 5–6, 2021 have spiked to more than $3,600 a night. The hotel’s majority owner, President Donald J. Trump, has teased an event in D.C. on Jan. 6 (Twitter banter says it’s a rally) – the day the Electoral College votes are counted in Congress” – Zach Everson.

CNBC: “President-elect Joe Biden plans to invoke the Defense Production Act after he takes office next month to boost production of coronavirus vaccines, a member of his Covid-19 advisory team said Monday. ‘You will see him invoking the Defense Production Act,’ Dr. Celine Gounder, a member of Biden’s Covid-19 advisory board, said during an interview on CNBC’s ‘Squawk Box.’ ‘The idea there is to make sure the personal protective equipment, the test capacity and the raw materials for the vaccines are produced in adequate supply.’ The wartime production law, which allows the president to compel companies to prioritize manufacturing for national security, could help the U.S. secure components and specialized products that manufacturers need to produce the Covid vaccines. Biden’s team has been weighing whether to invoke the law for vaccine production, NBC News reported last week.”

The New Yorker published a sweeping account of the Coronavirus pandemic in the United States, detailing the utter dereliction and mistakes made from inside the White House. The audio-narrated version is three hours and thirty five minutes long, which is just twenty minutes shorter than the extended edition DVD of The Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers.

“A Virginia sheriff’s deputy who allegedly called for a ‘violent revolutionary action’ and said he was ‘ready to kill’ anyone who tried to vaccinate his children or make him wear a mask has been fired. Posts from the Parler account of Aaron Hoffman, a member of the Prince William County Sheriff’s Office, included seeming death threats against Supreme Court Justice John Roberts and former president Barack Obama, according to screenshots posted online Saturday by freelance journalist Molly Conger” reports the NY Daily News.

“‘Do you REALLY think the Communists will stop now just because you wore your Trump hat, your superhero Trump flag and march in the cold in an empty city? Wake the fuck up!!’ Hoffman allegedly wrote under the screen name ‘We the People Warrior.’ ‘They have nothing to lose now that they are exposed. They will keep going and they want you to brawl with drug addicts and mentally ill pawns on the street. Quit falling for the obvious. Your pride makes you think marching is making a difference and at least you are a part of something, but reality is much darker… Physically take back your states!!! Not by votes, phone calls or emails, but by force. Now is the time.'”

Axios: “Getting a cranky, stubborn President Trump to belatedly sign the COVID relief bill, after unemployment benefits had already lapsed, was like being a hostage negotiator, or defusing a bomb. The deal was closed on a Sunday afternoon phone call with Trump, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy. ‘This is good,’ Trump finally said, an official familiar with the call told me. ‘I should sign this.'”

“Over many days, Mnuchin and McCarthy – aided by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who golfed with Trump in West Palm Beach on Friday – indulged the president’s rants, told him there was great stuff in the bill, and gave him ‘wins’ he could announce, even though they didn’t change the bill. Playing to his vanity, they invoked his legacy, and reminded him he didn’t want to hurt people. They convinced the author of ‘The Art of the Deal’ that he had shown himself to be a fighter, and that he had gotten all there was to get. Trump’s sweeteners, from his 8:15 p.m. statement: ‘The House and Senate have agreed to focus strongly on the very substantial voter fraud which took place in the November 3 Presidential election.'”

It would appear that no major news outlets reported anything about Elon Musk on Sunday. There wasn’t anything that said “investors” or “outlook” or “innovation” and the words “Elon Musk” at all, and I was looking at Twitter a lot today. There was something about “Ant Group” which is supposed to be like the big innovator in China, but they named it after ants, which is kind of stupid.

I haven’t seen “SoftBank” in a while. “SoftBank” used to be an important money technology something, but I guess it’s not so cool anymore with the innovation. Wonder if they got blockchained. I think I heard that was a bad thing. Also, there was this one investor expert guy said things will be good in 2021 and another different investor guy who said that things would be bad. I’m not sure if they were being honest or if they just wanted other people to innovate with their hedge capitals to diversify and win against the other investor guy. I suppose the real strategy in all of this information economy surge controversy is to invest harder, not smarter.