I agree that @joebiden shouldn't spend his entire presidency focusing on Trump.
I do, however, think it would be worth one day a week to focus on measures that will prevent ANOTHER Trump* from ever holding a position of public trust.
Thought:
if the 2020 Presidential election alone cost $14bn, that establishes the value of an individual's vote in the range $58 (for all potential voters) & $90 (if only counting actual votes).
Wouldn't disenfranchising voters by excluding > 12 legit ballots be felony larceny?
Similarly, wouldn't suppression of >20 eligible voters by means of closing down polls or other acts that don't quite fit the definition of fraud also be considered felony larceny?
Just taking a rough stab at this before bedtime -
while state officials aren't USG employees, one could theorize that excluding legitimately cast ballots in a Presidential election could be considered unlawful conversion of 'property' -
It's about who you identify AS - and that includes individuals' identities based on flawed understandings of patriotism and conservatism as influenced by hostile actors.
It's about inherited, inclusive AND exclusive identities (I am this, but I am also that VS I am this, therefore I am not that).
incl: "I am a New Yorker; I am an American"
inherited: "I am a New Yorker, so I am an American"
excl: "I am American, so I am not British"
The danger we face is with identity when political ideology shifts towards an exclusively exclusive model - and that's what hostile actors (both foreign and domestic) have been pushing for my entire lifetime:
the otherization of those who value this nation's original ideals.
EVERY bit of data for the State of Georgia can be accessed through the same corporate entity that was hacked by Russia in 2015 - but most of THOSE emails + data wasn't released.
Used for blackmail and election tampering, yes. But not publicly released
what proportion of living Americans have inherited more than $100,000, or $500,000 that originated with wealth derived from slavery?
How does that transfer of wealth map to political identity and geographic location?
Does anyone have a reference or primary source data?
It's a shame that Adam Goodheart at @washcoll doesn't have a twitter account. We could really use some more learned historians around here - to proviede truthful answers to questions about slavery and political dynamics around the civil war...
I’d been holding this back publicly, but since Chanel ‘broke the seal,’
This whole Russian disinfo op isn’t just about emails - it’s about pushing Qanon.
That computer was undoubtedly seeded with child sexual abuse material to support the Q narrative... 1/
I fear it was more than just emails that the Russians put on the fake Hunter Biden computer, and that info about images will be released over the next two weeks to prop up the Qanon narrative - in part, b/c it's RU’s standard operating procedure (can someone else outline this?)
And in part because of the apparent involvement of Joshua Wilson in the analysis of the hard drive, an FBI special agent involved in the Innocent Images initiative since 2007 - Signature on court docs matches this: justice.gov/archive/usao/n…