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intrepidity's JournalWhat happens between Jan 4th and when the 2 GA senators are seated?
Won't there be 2 vacant (R) seats, and how might that impact anything that may arise during that time, in terms of a vote?
Will Trump "pocket veto" the omnibus spending bill?
All he has to do is nothing and the clock runs out on this Congress.
He vetoed the defense bill already, so Congress has time to override that.
Thoughts?
ETA: Maddow segment on this:
https://twitter.com/MaddowBlog/status/1341943787896135680
FSB Officer Inadvertently Confesses Murder Plot to Navalny
Not sure if this has been posted, and I'm still reading it...
https://.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2020/12/21/if-it-hadnt-been-for-the-prompt-work-of-the-medics-fsb-officer-inadvertently-confesses-murder-plot-to-navalny/
At the end of this report we will present the original, unedited audio and transcript of the 49-minute call, recorded by a Bellingcat representative.
It took about six years, but Trump has finally won his feud with Smokey the Bear
https://twitter.com/AricToler/status/1341115513913667584
If Toomey gets his way, then all stops must be pulled out for GA election
Donate all our "stimulus" money to elect two new Dem senators so that we can undo this madness!
If we compromise now--with the hope of future pandemic relief--but then fail to win GAx2, it's game over.
ETA: is it possible that the Toomey provision cannot be easily undone or circumvented even with a willing Senate?
Trump and his game of shells
Most of us have heard forever about how ubiquitous the use of "LLCs" aka "Shell" companies is within the Trump Org. If Trump is master of anything, it is of the use of this strategy of nesting shells within shells, a veritable matroiyeshka of shells, all for the purpose of hiding things--sources of income, how funds are used, who is involved, etc.
Investigators who have been tasked with looking into Trump financial matters inevitably run into this bramble patch--and have a helluva time trying to unravel it.
The good news is that Congress just passed a veto-proof bill that includes a provision outlawing *anonymous* LLCs--and best of all, it is retroactive, meaning that Trump is going to keep a lot of lawyers gainfully employed (assuming he decides the law applies to him and thus must comply) going through his maze of paperwork and filling in the blanks. Gotcha, Donald!
Want to know the real reason Trump had been threatening to veto this Defense Spending bill? This right here is why. So sad that it passed with a veto-proof majority!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/12/11/anonymous-shell-company-us-ban/
Just imagine how much "kompromat" Russia now has, for 2024
Re: the cybersecurity breach.
It's looking like Putin's efforts in 2016 have paid him back so abundantly, that he didn't even need a second term from Trump. But he may now have the tools to reward him again in 4 years.
What if the prospect of Russian election interference actually caused a diversion of attention away from this other massive hacking effort? If it can be shown that resources were reassigned from areas that were subsequently compromised by this hack, then it's a credible premise.
The magnitude of this hack reminds me of how Niels Bohr described quantum theory: "Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it."
This feels a bit like that.
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