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Who is a worse governor, @BrianKempGA of Georgia or @dougducey of Arizona??? These are two RINO Republicans who fought against me and the Republican Party harder than any Democrat. They allowed states that I won easily to be stolen. Never forget, vote them out of office!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 12, 2020

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Slate: “Facebook has spent much of the past four years kowtowing to conservatives, treating right-wing news outlets with kid gloves even as they flouted its rules and spread disinformation, while bending over backward to avoid offending the Trump administration. By almost all accounts, the company hoped that playing nice would stave off any kind of serious regulatory crackdown on its business, or at least spare it some angry presidential tweets (while, of course, keeping Republican eyeballs glued to its news feed).”

“This strategy seems to have failed rather badly. On Wednesday, the Federal Trade Commission, along with 46 states and D.C. and Guam, filed a massive pair of antitrust suits accusing Facebook of illegally monopolizing the social-media market by buying up potential rivals such as Instagram and WhatsApp while freezing out third-party developers from its platform unless they promised not to create competing services. The government is seeking to break the company up as punishment. Unlike the antitrust suit the Justice Department launched against Google earlier this year, this does not appear to be a rushed PR play – it’s a concerted, full-frontal assault on Mark Zuckerberg’s empire. And Republicans are very much along for the charge. The FTC’s GOP Chairman, Joseph Simons, whom Trump appointed in 2018, voted with two of his Democratic colleagues to authorize the suit. Among the states that have joined the effort, almost as many are represented by a Republican attorney general as a Democrat. How did Facebook’s efforts to court conservatives bear so little fruit?”

“Two undercover police officers dressed as Santa Claus and his elf stopped two suspected car thieves and thee suspected shoplifters outside a Riverside, California, shopping center Thursday. Riverside Police Department’s Property Crimes Unit, assisted by officers from the School Resource Officer Unit, conducted a holiday enforcement program – which they’re calling ‘Santa’s Intervention’ – targeting retail theft during the holidays, the police department wrote on Facebook”.

“On Thursday, detectives and loss prevention specialists conducted video surveillance inside the Target store in the Canyon Springs shopping center as other detectives and officers remained outside to help detain any suspected thieves. Of those waiting outside were a detective and officer dressed as Santa Claus and his elf. At one point, they received information about three suspicious men attempting to steal vehicles in the parking lot. One of the undercover detectives saw the suspects trying to steal an older white Honda CR-V. Two of the men tried to flee the scene after spotting the officers, but were quickly apprehended. ‘One suspect resisted arrest but was taken into custody with the help of our undercover Santa, and the second was detained by the undercover elf,’ police wrote on Facebook” – ABC News.

Trump’s SCOTUS appointments were pointless. We defended a selfish clown for nothing.

— MILO Milo Friday, December 11, 2020

“On Saturday morning, aggrieved Trump supporters are set to rally outside the Supreme Court, Congress, and the Department of Justice’s headquarters. Their plan: to simultaneously march around and blow shofar horns in the hopes that the building’s walls will collapse, just like the biblical walls of Jericho. Taking tricks from the Old Testament is not the usual playbook for those engaged in piqued political fights. But desperate times call for desperate measures and there are few more desperate situations than the one Trump is facing as he seeks to reverse the results of the 2020 elections. For the second time since those elections concluded, his fans are set to flock to the nation’s capital to rally for a cause that the Supreme Court itself – on Friday night – dismissed. There will be chants, and marches, and signs, and apparently rams’ horns too.”

“The group planning to blow the shofar on Saturday call themselves Jericho March. And they say the walls they’re seeking to topple are metaphors for an election they claim was stolen from the president they support. Arina Grossu, a Jericho March co-founder and staffer at the conservative Family Research Council, claims she had a vision two days after Election Day that imagined Trump supporters protesting the election results by marching around buildings. ‘I literally had a vision of people praying around state capitols for election integrity, transformation, and reform,’ Grossu told The Daily Beast. The Jericho rally is just one of three that are being planned for Saturday across the capital. And it will come almost a month after thousands of Trump supporters last protested Trump’s election defeat in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 12 at the ‘Million MAGA March.’ Organizers expect fewer people to show up this go around. Indeed, a permit application from Women for America First, the group that organized the November rally, noted that Saturday’s numbers weren’t expected to match the Nov. 14 march” – Daily Beast.

….that, after careful study and consideration, think you got “screwed”, something which will hurt them also. Many others likewise join the suit but, within a flash, it is thrown out and gone, without even looking at the many reasons it was brought. A Rigged Election, fight on!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 12, 2020

• Particularly if Trump pardons his spawn, Joe Biden should pardon his son Hunter on his first day in office, so long as any back taxes are paid.  Not only will it piss off Trumpublicans, but it will dismiss years of nuisance hearings for the next four (eight?) years.
• If Texans don’t want to be in the United States, fine.  Revoke statehood.  But don’t give it independence:  make it a territory, and elevate DC or Puerto Rico to statehood (so we don’t have to change the flags).  Then start taxing the oil refineries so we can get some tax revenue out of them.  Let Texans learn what it feels like to be second-hand citizens for awhile.
• We’ll have a 7-day running average of daily coronavirus fatalities of 3,000 on New Year’s Day.  The scale of loss will never be fully comprehended in the United States.

Jenna Ellis, a claimed attorney who’s a member of lame duck president Donald Trump’s vainglorious “Elite Special Force Team” of lawyers, said on the Grant Stinchfield show on Newsmax that Trump’s inability to undermine the Constitution to get appointed to a second term despite losing both the popular vote and the Electoral College is a “failure across all three branches of government.”

https://youtu.be/Q7ppov8daFk

A Fox News poll released Friday found that 42% of respondents believe outgoing president Donald Trump will go down as one of the worst presidents in American history.  In one year, the feeling jumped:  a similar poll taken 31% of people felt Trump was one of the worst.

Amazingly, 22% said that Trump will go down in history as one of the greatest of all time.  Just 38% say he’ll be rated above average or better.

The former “Military Intelligence expert” Kracken and former member of the Elite Strike Force Team of legal Jeeeeenyuses Sidney Powell claimed was so super-secret she would only refer to only by the codename “Spyder” in court documents has been identified, and his credentials v very impressive.

Powell’s super-secret expert, “Spyder,” was supposed to have indisputable evidence that election agencies’ computers in four states had been compromised by bad actors in Iran and China.  His training in military intelligence was the linchpin to proving that now-lame duck president Donald John Trump had *actually* won reelection to a second term.

It turns out, however, that “Spyder” is actually 43-year-old  Joshua Merritt of Texas, according to the Washington Post.  And while he in the Army, his job classification was as a “wheeled vehicle mechanic” not a super-secret analyst.

CBS News: “The FDA on Friday approved Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine for emergency use, kicking off a massive effort to initially deliver nearly 3 million doses of the vaccine to more than 600 sites nationwide. The approval comes just a day after the FDA’s advisory panel voted 17-4 in favor of approving the vaccine. Frontline medical workers and residents of long-term care facilities will be the first to get the vaccine, and could receive it as early as Monday.”

“At the White House Christmas Party, guests were informed about 10 minutes ago that the president won’t be joining them to make remarks” reports NYT’s Maggie Haberman.

“So it’s war”

– The current top comment on The Gateway Pundit article “BREAKING: US Supreme Court Throws Out Texas Lawsuit Against Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin” posted Friday evening.

“The Supreme Court, in tossing the Texas lawsuit that was joined by seventeen states and 106 US congressman, has decreed that a state can take unconstitutional actions and violate its own election law. Resulting in damaging effects on other states that abide by the law, while the guilty state suffers no consequences. This decision establishes a precedent that says states can violate the US constitution and not be held accountable. This decision will have far-reaching ramifications for the future of our constitutional republic. Perhaps law-abiding states should bond together and form a Union of states that will abide by the constitution” – Statement by Republican Party of Texas Chairman Allen West posted Friday.

If the Supreme Court shows great Wisdom and Courage, the American People will win perhaps the most important case in history, and our Electoral Process will be respected again!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 11, 2020

In a moved some Department of Justice officials to question if he was politicizing the office, Attorney General Bill Barr instructed the US Attorney based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to accept and to vet information on Hunter Biden that came from Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, the New York Times reports.

US Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania Scott W. Brady held a four-hour meeting with Giuliani in late January to review the information Giuliani had on alleged corruption by the Biden family.  Brady was viewed by DoJ and FBI colleagues as a Trump loyalist.

At the time, the Delaware US Attorney was also investigating Hunter Biden for alleged tax issues, and the Southern District of New York US Attorney as well as the New York State Attorney General were investigating Giuliani.

The Supreme Court on Friday tossed the lawsuit filed by Texas to disenfranchise tens of millions of voters from four swing states – Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – thereby preserving the victory of President-elect Joe Biden and dealing lame duck Donald Trump’s hope to overturn the election yet another crushing setback, Reuters Supreme Court reporter Lawrence Hurley tweeted.

In a one-page statement, the Court rejected the case, stating Texas did not have standing to file it.  “Texas has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another state conducts its elections,” the order reads.  “All other pending motions are dismissed as moot.”

Justice Samuel Alito, joined by Justice Clarence Thomas, dissented from the order, stating, “In my view, we do not have discretion to deny the filing of a bill of complaint in a case that falls within our original jurisdiction. … I would therefore grant the motion to file the bill of complaint but would not grant other relief, and I express no view on any other issue.”

“On November 30, 2020, the Clerk of Court received a letter dated November 17, 2020 from counsel for Plaintiffs in which he requested a refund of the filing fee that Plaintiffs paid in this case. The Clerk is of the view that she lacks the authority to authorize the refund under the court’s Electronic Filing Fee Refund Policy (Nov. 6, 2015), which is available on the court’s website at https://www.uscfc.uscourts.gov/electronic-filing. She has therefore referred the matter to the Court for its consideration. In light of the referral, the Clerk is directed to docket Plaintiffs’ letter as a motion for refund, filed under seal. For the reasons that follow, Plaintiffs’ motion for refund is DENIED” – Judge Elaine Kaplan, US Court of Federal Claims.