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kpete's JournalHow mainstream outlets use the "fake news" crisis to give themselves a veneer of legitimacy
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Michael Moore: You Better Believe Trump Is Afraid of the Electoral College Vote on Monday
Yesterday was the day Donald Trump was going to hold his first press conference in 5 months. He abruptly cancelled it on Monday with no explanation. Well, I have one...
He has heard that there is a rumbling taking place amongst the Republican electors that some of them are growing uncomfortable with the news that the election was hacked by Russia to benefit him. This news was followed by the revelation that Putin himself directed the hack. And then last night, CBS News reported that the Russians had in the past committed a successful cyber-attack on the email system of the Pentagon's Joint Chiefs of Staff.
If you are a Republican Elector, this news is very sobering. And for some, very disturbing.
Electors of the Electoral College know that their job is to usually rubber stamp the election - with one exception: If they need to cast their vote to protect the country from someone who is a danger to our nation.
And slowly it has dawned on some of the electors this week that something doesn't smell right. And now that we know that Putin himself was behind this historic assault on our electoral process -- so that he could tilt the election to Trump -- well, this is now for many Americans a bridge too far.
Trump knows this, so he's gone into hiding from real journalists. He has one mission right now: Get to Monday without the shit hitting the fan. To show you how scared he is, after my (and others) week-long shaming him for not showing up to the daily national security briefing, his aides have responded by announcing that he'll start attending the briefings "three" times a week. As for the other four days, I guess it's, "Sorry America -- you're on your own!" But he knew he had to do something. This is the Trumpian way of "doing something."
Well, WE need to do something. All of us, very loudly, need to let the Electoral College know that they MUST vote their conscience on Monday. Or postpone the vote until they have more information about Trump's Manchurian Candidate-like behavior. Here is a site you can go to to find out what's going on protest-wise where you live over the weekend and on Monday: http://www.hamiltonelectors.com/events
What would Trump and the Republicans be doing today if they were ahead by 3 million votes - but the Electoral College was set to give the Presidency to Clinton? Are you kidding? THEY WOULD NOT LET THIS HAPPEN.
We are the wimps. We sink into our despair. We feel defeated and that there's nothing we can do. Everybody told us she was going to win! Nate Silver and 538 promised us it was in the bag! All the pundits agreed!!
Get over it and pull yourself together. "The tanks are 20 miles outside of Paris!" Throw everything you got at this and do not relent. You're in the friggin' majority! Let's act like it. Make your voice heard on social media and in front of your state capitol. An authoritarian regime is about to take hold in DC, and they are going to run roughshod over you, me and all that is good. Get over your election depression and fight like you've never fought before. Non-violently. With conviction. There are more of us than there are of them. Only 23% of all registered adult American voters showed up and voted for Trump. Come on! It's not over til it's over.
Trump is worried about Monday. It only takes 38 of his 300+ electors to defect.
These rallies he's holding every night this week and weekend?
They're not because he wants to sell more hats.
https://www.facebook.com/mmflint/posts/10154015321206857
Sen. Durbin's anti-Trump Tweetstorm: Trump has time to meet w/ Kanye, but not to solve biz conflicts
Sen. Dick Durbin goes on anti-Trump Tweetstorm, says Trump has time to meet w/ Kanye, but not to solve biz conflicts
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"unpresidented"
Possibly the most important freudian slip of our times
https://twitter.com/jbarro/status/810101289451454465
It took Trump and his team 87 minutes to fix the word "unpresidented."
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/810123682710437888
Boo
Your media future, explained.....
Your media future, explained by Jared Kushner.
"In exchange, Sinclair would broadcast their Trump interviews across the country without commentary..."
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/trump-campaign-sinclair-broadcasting-jared-kushner-232764
This Horrible Belief About the Election and What to Do With It
If a Republican were president right now and an incoming Democrat had won in an election where there was even a whiff of Russian interference, the nation would be shut down right now. Lawyers would be filing every lawsuit imaginable in every court everywhere. Marches would be ready to blockade the path of the electors from even getting to their meeting place. Impeachment documents would have been drawn up and, if they were in the minority in Congress, Republicans would be nonstop shaming Democrats, asking if they're loyal to the United States or Russia, until they agreed not to certify the election. It would be a 50-alarm fire and no one would be able to stop the momentum until the president-elect agreed to postpone inauguration until either a definite determination was made about the Russian influence or until a new election could be held. And that's what they'd do if the Democratic president-elect was an entirely competent, qualified person. If it was an egomaniacal hedonist who craps all over the traditions and decorum of the government? We'd be at Def-Con Monica.
And who could blame them, really? If Democratic elected officials truly believe that Russia hacked the Republican and Democratic National Committees' email servers in an effort to push the needle even slightly towards Donald Trump, then that's exactly how they should be acting.
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At the very least, President Obama should ask that Congress delay the Electoral College vote until, as Trump might say, we can figure out what the hell is going on. Barring that, he should ask Congress to delay the January 6 count of electoral votes. Barring that, Democrats should file objections to the vote that will force Congress to have to go on record in support of Trump.
And rank and file Democrats better be calling their members of Congress and the White House to voice their concern. And they better be ready to take to the streets to shut this down before the Trump cancer metastasizes so that its diseased tendrils grow deep into the American body. Act like our goddamned lives depend on it. Obama should be leading the charge on this, asking all concerned Americans to get involved. Just don't expect decency from a good many of them.
One last thing for President Obama: Fire the fuck out of James Comey. Shit, arrest that motherfucker.
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2016/12/this-horrible-belief-about-election-and.html
FBI backs CIA view that Russia intervened to help Trump win election
FBI Director James B. Comey and Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. are in agreement with a CIA assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election in part to help Donald Trump win the presidency, according to U.S. officials.
Comey’s support for the CIA’s conclusion — and officials say that he never changed his position — suggests that the leaders of the three agencies are in agreement on Russian intentions, contrary to suggestions by some lawmakers that the FBI disagreed with the CIA.
“Earlier this week, I met separately with (Director) FBI James Comey and DNI Jim Clapper, and there is strong consensus among us on the scope, nature, and intent of Russian interference in our presidential election,” CIA Director John Brennan said in a message to the agency’s workforce, according to U.S. officials who have seen the message.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-backs-cia-view-that-russia-intervened-to-help-trump-win-election/2016/12/16/05b42c0e-c3bf-11e6-9a51-cd56ea1c2bb7_story.html?utm_term=.e1e59ce702ee
BREAKING: China's navy has seized an unmanned, underwater U.S. Navy vehicle in international waters
China's Navy seizes unmanned U.S. vessel: NBC News China's Navy seizes unmanned U.S. vessel: NBC News41 Mins Ago | 01:41
A Chinese Navy warship has seized an underwater drone deployed by an American oceanographic vessel in international waters in the South China Sea, triggering a formal diplomatic protest from the United States and a demand for its return, a U.S. defense official told Reuters on Friday.
The incident, the first of its kind in recent memory, took place on Dec. 15 northwest of Subic Bay off the Philippines just as the USNS Bowditch, an oceanographic survey ship, was about to retrieve the unmanned, underwater vehicle (UUV), the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
"The UUV was lawfully conducting a military survey in the waters of the South China Sea," the official said.
"It's a sovereign immune vessel, clearly marked in English not to be removed from the water - that it was U.S. property."
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/16/china-has-seized-an-unmanned-us-navy-vehicle-in-south-china-sea.html
Clinton:Nate Silver believes & I happen to believe-That FBI letter most likely made the difference
Mrs. Clinton said the letter Mr. Comey released disclosing new questions about emails handled by her private server had cost her close races in several battleground states. “Swing-state voters made their decisions in the final days breaking against me because of the F.B.I. letter from Director Comey,” she said.
The Russians, she said, sought to “undermine our democracy” through cyberattacks on Democratic targets. She said the hacking into the Democratic National Committee and into the emails of her campaign chairman, John D. Podesta, were a result of Mr. Putin’s “personal beef” against her, pointing to her accusation that Russia’s 2011 parliamentary elections were rigged.
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“Putin publicly blamed me for the outpouring of outrage by his own people, and that is the direct line between what he said back then and what he did in this election,” Mrs. Clinton said.
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“Make no mistake, as the press is finally catching up to the facts, which we desperately tried to present to them during the last months of the campaign,” Mrs. Clinton told the group, which collectively poured roughly $1 billion into her effort. “This is not just an attack on me and my campaign, although that may have added fuel to it. This is an attack against our country. We are well beyond normal political concerns here. This is about the integrity of our democracy and the security of our nation.”
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