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30 Nov, 8 tweets, 2 min read
Sidney "Kraken" Powell is calling for Trump to stage a military coup. This sounds whacky but it should worry you.
3 weeks ago, the idea of calling for state legislatures to ignore the election results was fringe nuttiness. Today, Trump and his lawyers are loudly demanding it.
Online Pro-Trump spaces were happy to wait for SCOTUS to "overturn" the result. As they begin to understand that won't happen, more of them are calling for a coup too.
(This also intersects with QAnon, which claims Trump's election was part of masterplan to stage a military coup that would round up evil baby-eating Deep Staters)
Once this stuff starts to bleed through to the Sidney Powell types, it often ends up in Trump's head too. We saw it with the Dominion nonsense, for example.
I don't think Trump is about to order a coup. But I reckon he'll start talking about how he has the *right* to invoke the Insurrection Act and arrest the Electoral College.
It will be vital to see how Republicans react if/when Trump starts talking about military options to stay in power. I'm sure most will just keep their heads down and refuse to comment.
Mike Flynn joins calls for Trump to suspend the US Constitution and declare martial law. I predict we'll soon see some Fox commentators and GOP elected reps joining the calls for a coup.

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Bill Barr finally found a lie even he couldn't believe. Will he be fired now like @C_C_Krebs was?
@C_C_Krebs Pro-Trump forums HATE Bill Barr, btw. They're convinced he's a Deep State traitor
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Four days after @JennaEllisEsq announced "On to SCOTUS!", the Trump Campaign has not yet petitioned the Supreme Court to hear the appeal to the 3rd Circuit's denial. The Safe Harbour deadline is in just 7 days. Image
@JennaEllisEsq In those 7 days, the Trump Campaign has to:

1. Get SCOTUS to grant cert
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Hey @marceelias, I think I've found a minor error in your Answer in Pearson v Kemp, because your team assumed Powell and Wood accurately represented the content of their exhibits. They didn't.
In para 13, you accept that the Complaint accurately quotes from Plaintiff's exhibit 7 when it cites Dr. Andrew Appel saying he can hack a voting machine with a screwdriver in 7 minutes. But Exhibit 7 does NOT contain this quote:

courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
The actual source of the quote in the Complaint is from an interview Dr Appel gave Fox News in 2016.
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26 Nov
OK, let's look at Sidney Powell's "Kraken" Georgia complaint. First, like everyone else, I'm going to laugh at how the title, on the first page, misspells "District" in two different ways.
Next up: PDF metadata. The author of the PDF isn't Sidney Powell, it's Juli Haller. Who is Juli Haller?
Juli Haller, who wrote the Powell Georgia claim, is a *current* US Government employee, working for HUD in the Trump Administration.
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Trump is gearing up for a 2024 run. Hard to express how disastrous this will be for the GOP. All I can think of is Ken Livingstone in 2012.
Ken Livingstone became Mayor of London in 2000 as a maverick fighting the Labour Party establishment, until they eventually adopted him as the Labour candidate in 2004.
Ken wasn't a *bad* mayor by most measures, but he appointed a lot of cronies to well-paid jobs, he sucked up to Islamists and kept picking needless fights with racist undertones against Jewish Londoners.
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How ignorant of history and politics do you have to be to think that Roosevelt 100 years ago would have used the the contemporary American terms "conservative" and "liberal" in this way?
Roosevelt saw himself as a Liberal and a Progressive. In 1911 he wrote:

"Fundamentally it is the radical liberal with whom I sympathize. ...when he adds sanity in moderation to courage and enthusiasm for high ideals"
Later he founded the Bull-Moose Party, aka the Progressive Party, because he felt the GOP had become too conservative.
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