THREAD 3 pages 201-300 of the 966 page Senate Intelligence Committee’s #Volume5 counterintelligence report into Russian interference. We meet some interesting characters in these pages. I hope you will read them for yourself and arrive at your own conclusions.
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Pg 204 Remember when Republicans screamed about how it was CrowdStrike who had hacked info on Ukraine server and not the Russians? Were they knowingly using Russian propaganda to distract us during Impeachment? Were they unwitting? Perhaps the Ethics Committee could ask.
Pg 208 ‘If this were a war, this is like knowing where the troops are deployed’. Think about what this means. trump campaign could flood the market with ads against HRC based on where she thought she could reach voters.
Page 66 of Jared Kushner’s testimony to the House, he was running an efficient, precisely targeted campaign. If you know where to spend the dollars, there’s more value. What if the data he had to pull this off was from the hacked material referenced above?
Pg 209 I can’t help but recall Roger Stone was charged with lying to Congress. He has not been charged with any potential underlying crimes he may have committed that required the lies.
Pg 235 former Congressman Dana Rohrabacher’s mumpsimus caused immeasurable harm. His intransigence would never allow him to be convinced of Russian nefarious behavior. Interesting to note current House minority leader McCarthy once said he thought Rohrabacher was paid by Russia.
Pg 236 Know collusion.
Pg 237 this really requires seeing everything together and in context. May 2016, Stone tells Manafort about Wikileaks releasing Clinton’s emails. June 2016, jr., Manafort, Kushner have the trump tower Mtg with Russians for a Wikileaks update, but instead get Magnitsky info. C🧵2
Pg 242 Just a daily reminder this a Republican led Committee. We should all be asking them what they are doing as a result of now being aware of this. Weird how some still don’t seem to care.
Pg 258 Know collusion, Part Deux.
Pg 259. President Clinton was impeached because he lied in a deposition. trump should be impeached for lying to Special Counsel Bob Mueller. trump and his lawyers were so afraid of a ‘perjury trap’, they wouldn’t let him speak to Mueller. Were written questions a trap too?
Pg 275. The trump tower meeting. These folks seem nice. There are [REDACTED] pages in relation to this meeting for some reason. 🤔
Pg 288. It looks like the Senate Intel Committee got the jump on what Michael Cohen is teasing for his upcoming book. Also, always read the footnotes.
Pg 296. Sperbank dinner with trump as the guest of honor during the Miss Universe pageant in Moscow in 2013. It might be important to see trumps taxes. Just sayin’
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“There is no place for political violence” has been a pretty common refrain throughout the weekend. It really got me thinking. ”Political violence” must be one of those “you know it when you see it” types of things.
Let’s see…
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Political violence strikes me as a visual medium but there are so many things that occur before we see the blood that I think might be political violence. Are we just numb to it? How do we define what is political violence and what is just violence? Why is it different?
Are Texas Gov Greg Abbott’s razor balls floating in the river, considered “political violence”? Kind of. I mean, the idea is people from south of the US shouldn’t be allowed to come here and take our jobs.
Political.
To deter from this, razor balls in the river.
Violence.
There’s been a lot said about Joe Biden since the debate. I, along with so many of you, watched it play out in real time as respected news transmitters read out ‘inside texts’ from knee jerk reactionaries.
After much thought, I won’t be voting for Joe Biden because he’s old.
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I’ll be voting for Joe Biden because he’s team democracy. I’m voting for ideas he represents. I’m voting for the team of people he can put together. I’m voting for my own interests and for your ability to vote for your own interests. I didn’t vote for him last time either, btw.
In 2020, I voted for a November 5th, 2024 election. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were the only options on the ballot that allowed this. I colored in Joe and Kamala’s bubble to keep the lights on long enough for us to have this election. Like many of you, I voted team democracy.
I am loathe to do predictions. However, there are some things you just can’t help but see coming. Project 2025 is a blinking red alarm and we all need to be aware of the stakes of this election. Please familiarize yourself with EO11246, be discriminating voters.
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On September 24th, 1965 President Lyndon Johnson signed Executive Order 11246. EO11246 established Equal Opportunity Employment. It includes Non-Discrimination in Government. It includes Non-Discrimination Employment by Government Contractors and Subcontractors.
Focus on Non-Discrimination Employment by Government Contractors and Subcontractors. In Sub Part B under Contractor’s Agreements, contractors agree to not discriminate against employees based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.
“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
Trust me…
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The above is the oath the President takes at 12 noon on January 20. Typically, it is administered by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court but there is no law that makes that a requirement. You could have your gran do it. So why is it *usually* the Chief Justice?
For this thread let’s assume the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is there as a symbol of the law. Chief Justice Roberts in a way represents the Judicial Branch of our government on the day it grants power to the person who will symbolize the Executive Branch.
If trump wins, the period between Biden and trump would see the installation of trump acolytes in every corner of our government ready to begin the dismantling of institutions on January 20, 2025.
Have you ever heard of a Blackie’s Warrant?
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Of course not because it has no impact on your life whatsoever. Or does it? Because it totally does. If you have ever eaten in a restaurant, or eaten food from a grocery store or stayed in a hotel, or had a loved one being cared for, you may want to keep reading.
On March 17, 1978, a warrant was served upon Blackie’s restaurant as Immigration and Naturalization Services removed 15 employees. 10 of those were proven to be subject to deportation. What was the probable cause to issue such a warrant?
You may have recently seen an article @mtredden wrote in the Huffington Post about Judges going to a fancy West Virginia resort with the Koch funded Judicial Education Institute picking up the tab.
The article discusses how a newly appointed federal judge (who is married to an Affinity Partner of Jared Kushner, btw) did away with mask mandates on airplanes with the help of something called the Corpus of Historical American English.
The COHAE is a database of words and their meaning throughout history. According to Corpus of Founding-Era American English and former Chapman University (👀) professor James Phillips, “Corpus linguistics is the tool that originalists have been waiting for.”