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When we have three consecutive days of declines, we can breathe a little easier. Christmas is going to be a real test, though. Reported today that this doctor has been active in anti-vaxer campaigns for years. Being a medical doctor does not ensure anything- remember that two doctors gave cyanide Kool-aid to their childrenas well as others.

Trump Administration Declined Summer Offer To Buy More Of Pfizer’s Vaccine: Reports The COVID-19 treatment has since been shown to be more than 90% effective. Widespread rollouts of the Pfizer drug begin this week in the U.K. The Trump administration declined an offer from Pfizer to buy more doses of its COVID-19 vaccine at the end of the summer, according to several reports. Trump Administration Declined Summer Offer To Buy More Of Pfizer’s Vaccine: Reports | HuffPost Canada (huffingtonpost.ca) Rudy Juliani was revealed to have a low blood count in hospital tests. He has demanded a re-count. Florida Police Raid House Of COVID-19 Whistleblower Rebekah Jones The ousted data scientist has accused the state of asking her to censor and alter public-facing coronavirus data. Rebekah Jones, the former Florida official who says she was ousted from her job managing the state’s COVID-19 data for refusing to censor and alter case information, said Monday that armed officers raided her Tallahassee home and took all of her tech hardware. Jones, who was fired in May from her job in which she led data scientists and public health experts at Florida’s Department of Health, posted a video she captured of the Monday morning incident in which at least four officers entered with a warrant on her computer. “He just pointed a gun at my children,” Jones yells in the footage after telling the officers that her husband and two kids are also in the house.

Obviously a slow news day.

What we are seeing in the US now is a replay of the McCarthy era red witch-hunts. The biggest difference is that the GOP reined McCarthy in, and then turfed him. There are no such people in the 2020 GOP which is currently ruled by Trump, racism and fear.

There has been a credible review of Hydroxychloroquin in Europe and there was zero benefit found, but evidence of mental disturbances. The doctor in question ought to have been aware of that. Do you think that it was used when Trump went into crisis? It did not prevent him contracting COVID. Q.E.D.

Judges Chuck Sidney Powell’s ‘Kraken’ Conspiracy Suits in Georgia and Michigan REUTERS Federal judges in Georgia and Michigan sliced the tentacles off of Trump-aligned lawyer Sidney Powell’s notorious “Kraken” lawsuits Monday morning. The suits repeated now-infamous allegations that voting-machine manufacturer Dominion—abetted by authorities in both parties—conspired with Venezuela, China, and Iran to rig the election for President-elect Joe Biden. But Judge Linda V. Parker of the Wolverine State’s Eastern District court ripped the former prosecutor’s suit for doing little more than promoting scurrilous and unfounded innuendo about the vote counts out of Detroit and Dearborn, and denied a request to decertify the state’s results.

Trump's attorney general mulling his 'you can't fire me, I quit' moment — but the damage is already done William Barr may stop being attorney general before the end of Donald Trump's time in the White House, but will it be because he quit or was fired? Days after it was reported that Trump may fire Barr, new reports have Barr considering quitting. Anonymous sources tell both The New York Times and The Washington Post that Barr was totally, absolutely, thinking about quitting before the reports that he might be fired. But even if this isn't a case of "You can't fire me because I quit," it's definitely a rat deserting the sinking ship. As long as Trump was in a position for Barr to advance an agenda of unchecked executive power, firing squads, white supremacy, and attempting to crush U.S. cities under federal power, Barr was on board—he reportedly told people that he would like to stay on into a second Trump term if Trump had won. But now, be it the impending humiliation of being fired or the impending loss of power anyway, he's ready to go.

Better, still far from good.

It would be a wonderful gesture if the media simply announced that Trump has left 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and the fumigators are coming in.

This has been amended by the government: there will be 250,000 doses arriving next week and distribution will begin within 48 hours. All good news.

I suspect that the level of dishonesty and corruption in US politics has increased slowly and inevitably to the point where almost anything that happens now is greeted with a shrug.

Bombshell Sun Sentinel investigation reveals DeSantis ordered Florida health officials ‘not to discuss’ COVID with public In contrast to the governors who aggressively promote social distancing measures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic — from Republican Larry Hogan in Maryland to Democrat Gavin Newsom in California — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has often joined President Donald Trump in downplaying the pandemic's severity. A recent South Florida Sun Sentinel investigation showed how badly DeSantis misled Floridians on COVID-19's dangers, and CBS 4 Miami (the CBS television affiliate in that city) interviewed one of the reporters who worked on that investigation: Mario Ariza. Ariza told CBS 4 Miami, "In the weeks leading up to the election, we essentially discovered that the DeSantis Administration had ordered public health officials not to discuss the COVID-19 virus with the public. So, no press releases about COVID-19 were coming out from the Florida Department of Health. And the Florida Department of Health's messaging to the public shifted remarkably online. The term that we kept hearing again and again for this was 'blue sky' messaging, in the lead up to the election."

Armed Trumpists Surround Michigan Secretary of State’s Home Screaming ‘Stop the Steal’ Armed Trump supporters demanding that the president’s election loss is overturned gathered outside Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson's home this weekend to shout obscenities at her and her 4-year-old son, she said in a statement. Benson wrote that she and her boy were decorating the house and watching How the Grinch Stole Christmas Saturday night when dozens of protesters arrived outside. “The demands made outside my home were unambiguous, loud, and threatening,” she wrote. “They targeted me in my role as Michigan's Chief Election Officer.” The Detroit Free Press reported that part of the protest was livestreamed and showed some of the demonstrators kitted out in Trump merchandise. The group can be heard chanting “Stop the steal” and “We want an audit.” The group dispersed with no arrests when police arrived at the scene.

Very bad news for Giuliani- he is high risk in every category.

Trump's performance in Georgia would be funny but with the political climate in the US the way it is, it is both sad and frightening. America is edging closer to civil ware every day. But contrary to Trump, cucimbers have uses.

I thought it was hilarious (no reference to Ms. Clinton) and the poop-tossing may have occurred right after the picture was taken.

White House, January 20, 2021

Former Trump lawyer Sidney Powell fumbles her way into another legal blunder. Powell was dismissed from the president’s legal team after making unsubstantiated claims about voter fraud By TOM BOGGIONI According to Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter Greg Bluestein, former Donald Trump election lawyer Sidney Powell continued her streak of legal appeal errors with what appears to be a typo telling judges in Georgia that votes intended for former Vice President Joe Biden were " flipped" to Donald Trump. Powell, who was dismissed from the president's legal team after making claims that were considered beyond the pale by both the president and his main legal adviser Rudy Giuliani, has continued to attempt to make the case for the president that the election was rife with fraud with what she called lawsuits of "biblical proportions." Writing "Whoops" and appending a screenshot of the latest filing in Georgia, where Trump unexpectedly lost, Bluestein added, "The latest legal filing from former Trump attorney Sidney Powell in her Georgia lawsuit accuses Dominion voting machines of flipping votes from Biden to Trump — which would mean the president gained fraudulent votes. One GOP attorney calls it an 'epic fail.'"

If we do not get a significant reduction in new cases and % of positive tests by Monday, we will be in trouble.

An anal apperture to the end.

And why should he? He has, with the support of the GOP, committed treason, broken election laws and the Emoluments laws, not to mention all of the very apparent criminal acts he committed before becoming president. Thieves are gonna keep stealing until they go to jail.

Rudy Giuliani’s star election fraud witness recently got off probation for "computer crime": report Mellissa Carone claimed that ballots were being smuggled inside food vans in interviews with right-leaning media. Melissa Carone, who was working for Dominion Voting Services, speaks in front of the Michigan House Oversight Committee in Lansing, Michigan on December 2, 2020. - The president's attorneys, led by Rudy Giuliani, have made numerous allegations of election fraud. A star witness in President Trump's effort to overturn the 2020 election just recently got off probation for committing a "computer crime," the Daily Mail reports. Mellissa Carone was sentenced to 12 months probation in September of 2019 for the crime which took place the year before. Carone struck a deal with prosecutors who dropped a first-degree obscenity charge against her. Carone became a viral story after she appeared as a key witness in the Trump campaign's Michigan voter fraud claims. Everything that happened at that TCF Center was fraud," she said, when appearing on December 2 in front of a Michigan House oversight committee. "Every single thing." https://www.salon.com/2020/12/04/rudy-giulianis-star-election-fraud-witness-recently-got-off-probation-for-computer-crime-report_partner/

Ick! I would put that right up there with deep-fried Twinkies.

Trump has installed his toadies at the head of the Pentagon and there is reason to believe that he has done so in anticipation of declaring martial law due to a "rigged election". He and his advisors are hoping that if it comes to this, the military mindset of following orders without question will kick in and then troops will be sent into the streets to put down any dissent from voters or political adversaries. This is a chilling prospect as this would suspend the courts, habeas corpus and all other individual rights. Any American who thinks it couldn't happen is delusional as Trump has given every indication of being willing to do exactly this.