Alternate headline:  “And they did it all over Zoom.”

Alternate alternate headline:  “But they didn’t win the Senate?”

CCP & 1000’s of US citizens worked together to try to steal 2020 election at top of ticket & selected down ballot races. Serbia, Canada, Venezuela, Cuba, CIA, George Soros, Bill Gates, Biden, Clinton Foundation & many national state & local officials from both parties involved.

— Lin Wood (@LLinWood) December 13, 2020

New York Times: “The show was called ‘Scraper,’ but it was clearly about Gawker Media, the network of aggressive, transgressive blogs that created mischief and headaches for America’s powerful until its targets sued the company into oblivion in 2016. Two Gawker veterans sold the idea to Apple TV+, the new streaming service: Cord Jefferson, who left the site for a career writing for TV, and Max Read, Gawker’s former editor in chief. Apple hired two more former Gawker editors, Emma Carmichael and Leah Beckmann, as writers, and they had completed several episodes, people close to the production said.”

“Then, an Apple executive got an email from the company’s chief executive, Tim Cook. Mr. Cook, according to two people briefed on the email, was surprised to learn that his company was making a show about Gawker, which had humiliated the company at various times and famously outed him, back in 2008, as gay. He expressed a distinctly negative view toward Gawker, the people said. Apple proceeded to kill the project. And now, the show is back on the market and the executive who brought it in, Layne Eskridge, has left the company. Gawker, it seems, is making trouble again.”

Swing States that have found massive VOTER FRAUD, which is all of them, CANNOT LEGALLY CERTIFY these votes as complete & correct without committing a severely punishable crime. Everybody knows that dead people, below age people, illegal immigrants, fake signatures, prisoners,….

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 13, 2020

….place in Detroit, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, and elsewhere. In all Swing State cases, there are far more votes than are necessary to win the State, and the Election itself. Therefore, VOTES CANNOT BE CERTIFIED. THIS ELECTION IS UNDER PROTEST!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 13, 2020

“U.S. border officials have expelled at least 66 unaccompanied migrant children without a court hearing or asylum interview since a federal judge ordered them to stop the practice, the Trump administration conceded on Saturday. In a filing in federal court in Washington, Justice Department lawyers acknowledged the expulsions represented a ‘contravention’ of a ruling issued by U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan in November that prohibits the Trump administration from using a pandemic-era emergency border policy to expel minors who are apprehended without their parents or legal guardians. ‘Defendants regret that class members were expelled contrary to the Court’s injunction and are committed to full compliance with the Court’s injunction going forward,’ Justice Department attorneys wrote” – CBS News.

Novelist John Le Carre, famed for his spy thrillers like Tinker, Tailor, Solder, Spy and The Spy Who Came In From the Cold, died on Saturday at the age of 89, the Associated Press reports.

A veteran of the British Army, Le Carre worked covertly for MI5, the equivalent of the US FBI while teaching at Oxford University.  He transferred to the foreign intelligence agency MI6 to work overseas.

After the success of  The Spy Who Came in from the Cold in 1963, he became a full-time novelist.

Le Carre is survived by his wife of 48 years, Valérie Jane Eustace, with whom he had one child.  He had three children from a previous marriage.

…They just “chickened out” and didn’t want to rule on the merits of the case. So bad for our Country!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 13, 2020

During Saturday night’s protests in Washington, DC, pro-Trump protesters vandalized two churches, including setting fire to “Black Lives Matter” banner ripped from the churches, WRC NBC-4 Washington reports.

The vandals, affiliated with the Proud Boys, can be seen on a video of the crime using lighter fluid to set the banners ablaze and stood around the fire, with some chanting “Fuck antifa,” apparently conflating two separate social justice movements.

The violence targeted two historic African American churches in the District:  the Asbury United Methodist Church and the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church.  The violence happened Saturday night, as mobs of Proud Boys prowled the streets of neighborhoods taunting locals.

“BREAKING: Russian hacking group APT29 behind broad espionage campaign that breached Treasury, Commerce, FireEye.” —Washington Post national security reporter Ellen Nakashima

APT29 is the Russian government-backed group known as “Cozy Bear.”  (“APT” stands for Advanced Persistent Threat.)  Cozy Bear is the group that hacked the Democratic National Committee’s email server in 2016.

Why is Georgia Secretary of State Raffensperger working so hard to add drop boxes and take other steps to make it harder for Republicans to win. Is he really that intimidated by Stacey Abrams?

— Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) December 13, 2020

Washington Post: “Police in Washington state have arrested an armed right-wing protester on charges of first-degree assault Saturday in Olympia, the state capital, on suspicion of shooting a left-wing protester during demonstrations fueled by baseless claims that President Trump had been wrongly denied reelection. Authorities identified the alleged shooter as a 25-year-old man from Shoreline, a city north of Seattle, but did not release a name. He remains in custody.”

“The shooting, which occurred shortly after 2 p.m., was the second in just eight days in Olympia as protests and counterprotests related to Trump’s election defeat and false claims of voter fraud have escalated into violence, as they have in the nation’s capital, where at least four people were reportedly stabbed Saturday night. In Olympia on Saturday, demonstrations between supporters and opponents of Trump rapidly deteriorated into rioting and violence, moving between the sprawling State Capitol grounds and downtown streets, said Chris Loftis, a spokesman for the Washington State Patrol, which is investigating the shooting. Multiple people stabbed after thousands gather for pro-Trump demonstrations in Washington The victim is in a hospital but has refused to speak to investigators, and the extent of the person’s injuries is unknown.”

Where is Marco, indeed? A growing number of Florida Republicans are urging me to challenge Marco Rubio in the Republican primary. I am far more likely to make the race against Rick Scott because he’s never been held accountable for his theft of $1 billion from Medicaid.As President Trump would say, “let’s see what happens” #Stone2022

— Roger Stone rogerstone Sunday, December 13, 2020

Full text: “Where is Marco, indeed? A growing number of Florida Republicans are urging me to challenge Marco Rubio in the Republican primary. I am far more likely to make the race against Rick Scott because he’s never been held accountable for his theft of $1 billion from Medicaid.As President Trump would say, ‘let’s see what happens’ #Stone2022”

“The Georgia Supreme Court has rejected an appeal of a lawsuit by President Donald Trump that seeks to overturn the state’s election results. The president filed the lawsuit in Fulton County Superior Court Dec. 4. But on Friday he appealed the case directly to the Supreme Court. The appeal said procedural miscues it blamed on the county meant the case would not be heard before Monday – the day the Electoral College is set to formally name Joe Biden the next president.”

“The appeal asked the Georgia Supreme Court to consider the merits of its case before Monday. But late Saturday the court rejected the appeal. It was not immediately clear on what grounds it based its decision. Among other things, the lawsuit says tens of thousands of people voted illegally in Georgia. Such claims came under fire at a state legislative hearing last week, when a lawmaker said she found that several voters who allegedly cast fraudulent ballots were, in fact, legally registered voters” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Newsweek: “Georgia Senator Kelly Loeffler was criticized Saturday and Sunday for posing beside a former KKK leader, with less than a month before two runoff elections in the state that will determine which party controls the U.S. Senate. The picture shows Loeffler smiling beside ring-wing activist Chester Doles. It was reportedly posted to Doles’ social media on Saturday with the caption ‘Kelly Loeffler and I. Save America, stop Socialism.'”

“Doles, who was a leader in the Ku Klux Klan, is a convicted felon with ties to several white supremacist groups, although he claims his current ‘American Patriots USA’ group is free of racism. ‘In 1993, Doles nearly beat a Black man to death. In 2017, he marched in Charlottesville,’ wrote Jewish activism group Bend the Arc in a Saturday night tweet with the picture of Doles and Loeffler. ‘This is who Kelly Loeffler is proudly appealing to.’ Miryam Lipper, the communications director of Jon Ossoff, who is running against Georgia Senator David Perdue, tweeted ‘This is Georgia’s GOP’ on Sunday in response to the photo.”

“An Okemos man was arrested after a standoff with police Saturday. The Meridian Township Police Department said it started with a crash at the corner of Central Park Drive and Marsh Road around noon. The 32-year-old man ran from the crash with a rifle. He climbed to the roof of the Chili’s in the Meridian Mall parking lot. Members of the Ingham Regional Special Response Team surrounded the suspect and talked to him for about an hour. The suspect did climb down from the roof and walked across the parking lot. At some point, the man shot his gun, but officers didn’t shoot back. After the man refused to listen to police demands to drop his gun, officers shot sponges at the suspect to take him into custody. The suspect was taken to the hospital to be checked out physically and mentally. No one else was hurt” – WILX.

The CBS News/YouGov poll found that 51% of Trump voters said he should concede after the Electoral College votes are finalized Monday. But the vast majority of them (79%) also say it should still be contested, so not really sure how those contradictory responses work out.

The poll’s write up said “Views expressed by Trump voters appear to be more than just the result of disappointment at the outcome. When we offered people a chance to explain why they would not view Mr. Biden as legitimate and offered the option that they were simply not ready to do so at the moment, few took it, saying instead it was because there was ‘fraud or inaccuracies,’ in their view. Trump voters also largely reject the idea that the president is himself making these claims simply because he’s upset by his loss, with 85% saying he has ‘hard evidence of widespread vote fraud'” which sounds like they’re still collectively an emotional wreck and don’t know what to think.

THE BIGGEST WINNER OF OUR NEW DEFENSE BILL IS CHINA!. I WILL VETO!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 13, 2020

“My first experience of workplace sexual harassment was when my mom got her first real office job after graduating from college when I was in high school. She was so excited to be taken ‘seriously.’ Her bossed isolated her and kissed her. She never had that type of job again. It was then how I learned how hard it is for women. How hard this world can be for us when we are trying to be taken seriously and help our community. How easily jerks can destroy the lives of women. And I promised myself I would never let those kind of guys win. I would work hard my whole life to put myself in positions of power to change things. To end the violence & corruption. Give voice to the voiceless. I am not stopping. I refuse. I will never give up.”

“Yes, [Governor Andrew Cuomo] sexually harassed me for years. Many saw it, and watched. I could never anticipate what to expect: would I be grilled on my work (which was very good) or harassed about my looks. Or would it be both in the same conversation? This was the way for years. Not knowing what to expect what’s the most upsetting part aside from knowing that no one would do a damn thing even when they saw it. No one. And I *know* I am not the only woman. I’m angry to be put in this situation at all. That because I am a woman, I can work hard my whole life to better myself and help other and yet still fall victim as countless women over generations have. Mostly silently. I hate that some men, like [Governor Andrew Cuomo] abuse their power” – Twitter thread by Manhattan Borough President candidate and former Cuomo aide Lindsay Boylan.

AP:  “(Washington)  Thousands of supporters of President Donald Trump returned to Washington for weekend rallies to back his desperate efforts to subvert the election that he lost to Joe Biden.

“Sporadic fights broke out between pro-Trump and anti-Trump demonstrators after sundown Saturday. WRC-TV reported that four people were taken to a hospital with stab wounds, and the Metropolitan Police Department told the station that 23 people were arrested.

“The gatherings of mostly unmasked Trump loyalists were intended as a show of force just two days before the Electoral College meets to formally elect Biden as the 46th president. Trump, whose term will end Jan. 20, refuses to concede, while clinging to baseless claims of fraud that have been rejected by state and federal courts, and Friday by the Supreme Court.

“It’s been five weeks since the election, and he still hasn’t conceded. Alleging massive voter fraud, he’s demanded an audit of votes in populous Democratic strongholds. On Thursday, he sued the secretary of state. We’re talking here about Loren Culp, the unsuccessful Republican nominee for governor in Washington state, where he lost by more than 13 percentage points on Nov. 3. Like Donald Trump, Culp insists he’s the victim of a rigged election” Politico reports.

“Trump, it seems, isn’t the only dead-ender holding out more than a month after the election, refusing to acknowledge defeat. Even as Trump lost again in court on Friday, with the Supreme Court rejecting a long-shot effort to overturn the election, he remains a lodestar for denialists of the GOP. In California, a Republican congressional candidate trounced in Democratic-heavy Los Angeles is still refusing to concede – while simultaneously announcing he’s running for governor. In Maryland, a congressional candidate beaten by more than 40 percentage points is still complaining about ‘irregularities’ in her election. And in Tennessee, a House candidate defeated by more than 57 percentage points has reached out to the ubiquitous pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell to air her grievances about an election that no Republican had any chance of winning – but that she’s convinced she did. The down-ballot parroting of Trump’s baseless claims of widespread voter fraud began right after the election. But in the weeks since, it has evolved into a self-sustaining phenomenon of its own. Republican candidates for House, legislative and gubernatorial races in more than half a dozen states are still refusing to concede.”

CNN: “President Donald Trump shows no signs of acknowledging reality, as he continues his hopeless journey to overturn the 2020 election results. Whether he likes it or not, it’s President-elect Joe Biden who will be president starting on January 20. Trump’s unwillingness to concede the 2020 election has now entered historic territory. No major party candidate has gone as long after Election Day without conceding as Trump in modern American history.”

“Trump has now waited even longer than Al Gore did in 2000 to put aside partisan differences and admit defeat. Gore dropped out of the race on this date in 2000. He conceded to George W. Bush and gave a conciliatory speech in front of the nation, after the Supreme Court ordered a halt to the Florida recount in a 5-4 decision. The Court ruled against Gore just as the Safe Harbor deadline was passing for states selecting their electors to the Electoral College. Gore saw reality and didn’t want to lead this country nor his supporters down an unnecessary and potentially dangerous rabbit hole. This year, the Supreme Court refused to even entertain a case brought by Pennsylvania Republicans to block certification of their state’s results ahead of that same Safe Harbor deadline. It’s part of a pattern of Trump and Republicans in support of Trump losing pretty much every court case post-election. Gore’s team actually won some prominent cases. Indeed, it’s worth noting that Gore’s efforts had some chance of succeeding. The 2000 election was a far closer affair than the 2020 election turned out to be.”