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We will know by December 1st how devastated or hopeful we can be. We are getting closer and closer to a f;ashpoint.

Trump Throws Twitter Tantrum As Long-Shot Attempts To Stay In Power Fade Away The outgoing president retweeted a supporter who called his opponents "anti-American and anti-Christian" following an underwhelming protest in Washington. The week ended with judges in several states rejecting President Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the election results and the coronavirus pandemic surging, but Trump himself took to Twitter Sunday for one of his now-familiar rants. Trump admitted defeat to President-elect Joe Biden in one tweet, falsely claimed the election was rigged in another and retweeted a supporter who called Trump’s opponents “anti-American and anti-Christian” ― all before 10 a.m. https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/trump-throws-twitter-tantrum-as-longshot-attempts-to-stay-in-power-fade-away_n_5fb1557dc5b68baab0fd4c40?ri18n=true

Bill Barr denounced for pushing executions even after the administration was voted out A group of Democratic lawmakers on Friday demanded the Trump administration halt federal executions—a practice it brought back after a 17-year hiatus—citing the threat of "irrevocable injustice." "While you will remain in office for a few more weeks, going forward with executions in the weeks before the new administration takes office would be a grave injustice," the lawmakers wrote to Attorney General William Barr. www.alternet.org

Behind The Scenes At The White House An opinion columnist at The Hill has predicted that after pardoning people in his inner circle, "Trump will resign from the presidency before his term officially ends, and he will be pardoned by Vice President Pence, when Pence becomes president." Columnist Brent Budowsky explains, "A presidential pardon by Pence would not offer protection from cases originating in states, but those cases will be far more manageable if they are not sunk into a morass of federal cases that only a federal pardon can protect him from." Without a federal pardon, Budowsky continues, Trump will almost certainly spend his coming years stuck in federal cases that not only threaten his freedom, but also his ability to secure lucrative multibillion-dollar business deals capitalizing off of his presidency and media savvy.

Well, Manitoba has its share of fundamentalist nuts, but the climate in Florida is warmer.

Apparently stoopidity is contagious.

Yesterday Brianna Keilor on CNN roasted the Trumpettes for coming to news conferences with impressively big binders of papers which are never opened and have been proven to contain nothing but blank pages.

Beauty is only skin deep, but stoopid goes clear through.

HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF

Living proof that you can fool a lot of the people all of the time.

Being dead is not a problem- dying slowly and painfully is.

Trump plans “vote-count rallies” to “wreck” Fox News in bid to launch competing network: report. Trump reportedly considers launching a "cheaper" streaming-only MAGA platform over an "expensive" cable channel By IGOR DERYSH President Donald Trump plans to hold "vote-counting rallies" with a focus on attacking Fox News after telling allies he wants to start a digital media company that would "clobber" the conservative news outlet, according to a new report. Trump intends to bring back his rallies after his election loss, and he is "going to spend a lot of time slamming Fox," a source told Axios. Trump has long been rumored to want his own cable news outlet to compete with the network, but Axios reports that he is now considering a "cheaper" digital streaming network, which would more directly compete with the Fox Nation streaming platform. https://www.salon.com/2020/11/12/trump-plans-vote-count-rallies-to-wreck-fox-news-in-bid-to-launch-competing-network-report/ (Yeah. Like I beleive this. When all the dust settles, Trump will have to look under the sofa cushions to buy KFC.)

To Trump, everyone else, including his wife and family, is disposable and easily replaced.

Scotland may look at 'serious and long-standing concerns about Trump's business activities' 'His business model is chaos': Ex-Trump Homeland Security official says president can't keep country safe Aldous Pennyfarthing and DailyKos November 13, 2020 What I know about money laundering is drawn almost entirely from Ozark and Office Space, so I won't try to add too much to this. But here's a little more detail from the Scotsman story McLaughlin linked to: An UWO is a relatively new - and rarely used - power which has been designed to target suspected corrupt foreign officials who have potentially laundered stolen money through the UK. The mechanism, introduced in 2018, is an attempt to force the owners of assets to disclose their wealth. If a suspected corrupt foreign official, or their family, cannot show a legitimate source for their riches, then authorities can apply to a court to seize the property. Mr Trump and the Trump Organisation have always stressed that they did not require any outside financing for their Scottish resorts. https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/donald-trump-golf-course-scotland/ Mark Esper's exit interview offers clues to what Donald Trump may do in his final days as president Meaghan Ellis November 13, 2020 U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper's firingU.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper's firing did not come as a surprise but that does not mean it was not a disturbing development in the last days of the Trump administration. Now, his interview following his departure signals a very big problem and warning alarm about what is to come as President Donald Trump begrudgingly goes through his lame-duck days. Within an hour of his firing, Esper conducted a preemptive interview with Military Times in an effort to ring the alarm about the days ahead. Esper admitted that he was fired simply because he refused to be a Trump loyalist and adhere to the president's demands. Esper also expressed concern as he warned about the type of replacement to secede him. "I could have a fight over anything, and I could make it a big fight, and I could live with that," Esper said Wednesday, at a time when reports of his imminent firing were swirling. He added: "Why? Who's going to come in behind me? It's going to be a real 'yes man.' And then God help us." https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/mark-esper/

Reuters: Trump Keeps Coming Up With Absurd and Unworkable Ideas to Stay in Office, Says Report During his long days barricaded inside the White House, President Donald Trump is reportedly watching cable news coverage about his demise while coming up with scattershot ideas to cling to his office. The New York Times reports that, following a Wednesday meeting with advisers who have told him he has no chance of remaining president, Trump asked them if red states could put forward pro-Trump electors to give him the electoral votes he needs to overturn the election result. Sources told the paper Trump doesn’t appear to believe any of his schemes will actually work, but are more about killing time while he works out what he’ll do next. “He knows it’s over,” one adviser said, but the president seems to believe that the controversy is a good way to keep his supporters engaged.

Reuters: Top U.S. Cybersecurity Official Expects to Be Fired After Debunking Election Lies: Report Jonathan Ernst/Reuters The United States’ top cybersecurity official has told those close to him that he expects to be fired, Reuters reports. Chris Krebs, head of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), has drawn the ire of the White House with his agency’s “Rumor Control” page, which debunks election misinformation as part of its work defending U.S. elections against digital interference and hacking. President Donald Trump has promoted false claims of widespread voter fraud and filed a series of unsuccessful lawsuits challenging the results of the election. White House officials have reportedly requested that CISA remove its debunks, specifically one that put out accurate information deflating a conspiracy theory that a clandestine intelligence agency computer program could have altered votes across the country. The bureau has declined. Krebs himself did not confirm the news of his impending departure. Bryan Ware, assistant director of CISA, resigned Thursday.

https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/republicans-trump/ 'A coup is under way': Experts warn Trump and GOP leaders could unleash a wave of violence Historians and other experts on Thursday warned that President Donald Trump's attempt to remain in power despite his loss in the 2020 election is growing increasingly dangerous as Republican leaders willingly participate in the disenfranchisement of millions of voters and back the president's refusal to accept the election results. In an op-ed at The Hill, journalist Albert Hunt wrote that Trump's "deceitful charge" that the Democratic Party stole the election and allowed "illegal votes" to be cast—claims that have yet to be backed up by evidence—"undermines confidence in our Democratic system, but it could also threaten to unleash a dangerous wave of violence." Quoted in Hunt's piece, white supremacy and terrorism expert Kathleen Belew, a history professor at the University of Chicago, warns that after Trump's courting of violent white supremacist groups—in 2017 when he refused to denounce neo-Nazis at a rally in Virginia where an anti-racist protester was murdered, and weeks ago when he offered tacit approval of the Proud Boys at the first presidential debate—the president's rhetoric and actions in recent days "could also be invitation for drastic action and mass murder like the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995."

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Won't LeVar Burton's visor get in the way?

Nicolle Kidman and Katie Holmes did.

Aaaannnnd..... 'Like a lunatic on the subway': Trump's national security adviser is warning staff they'll be fired for mentioning Biden’s name In the months leading up to the 2020 presidential election, countless pundits predicted that if President Donald Trump lost to former Vice President Joe Biden, he would respond with a childlike temper tantrum and refuse to accept the election results — and sure enough, Trump is doing exactly that. Trump has yet to concede to President-elect Biden, making the baseless claim that he was robbed of a victory by widespread voter fraud. And according to a team of four Daily Beast reporters, the outgoing president is so sensitive about losing to Biden that National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien is telling his staff they will be fired even if they even mention Biden's name in Trump's presence.

And the Pallister government still has not hired back all the nurses they laid off over the past few years. Nurses and housekeeping staff have been forced to work part-time at several different places to survive, making the transmission of infections almost inevitable.

Pennsylvania postal worker recants claims of voting ‘irregularities’ — says that Project Veritas penned his affidavit According to Boburg, Bogage and Bennett, "Hopkins surreptitiously recorded the interview on Monday, then revealed to the agents that he had done so at the end of the session, according to the recording. Project Veritas, an organization that initially aired Hopkins' claims last week, released the recording on Wednesday, claiming that it showed he was coerced and pressured into signing a 'watered down statement drafted by them using their words.'" Project Veritas, the reporters note, "has sought to bolster unproven allegations of widespread voter fraud, offering a $25,000 reward for evidence of election improprieties in Pennsylvania in recent days and promoting fundraising efforts for Hopkins."

The vast majority of drivers do not drive while drunk, yet we still work hard to keep them off the road, as we should. The same applies to police, clergy, politicians, teachers, boy scout troop leaders and so forth.