If you'd like a headstart on today's thread, head over to @realDonaldTrump's profile. We'll be taking his most recent three posts on the election as our guidance.
We'll watch Madison's amazing video very carefully together below. Alone with a few general comments, we have three other sources to consider today as well. But watch Madison first, in full.
2) Getting ready for today's thread, I watched Madison again, and found myself in need of more clarity about how the Presidential Election is certified. Google was even more unkind, and it was a struggle. But finally I found the right attack on the search.
3) With this search, I found 3 articles, all with the same focus, which is on VP Pence's role and recent statement on topic. The articles are almost identical, so you only need read one of them. We're not going to analyze them in detail, but they are worth perusing.
2) You've heard the cynics psychoanalyze @realDonaldTrump since he and Melania came down the escalator. They'll tell you today that Trump knows he has lost, and is only manipulating us in order to raise money. Yeah, they've called everything so correctly, haven't they?
3) In case you're new to my analysis, I do employ sarcasm freely, and I hope you can hear my tone dripping with it above. There is no means of leadership Trump will leave on the table as he prosecutes his personal mission to #MakeAmericaGreatAgain. Fundraising matters.
The Forward View + A Table of Contents For Our J.E. Dyer @OptimisticCon's 10 Threads
To be sure, happiness in this New Year's moment has an even more ephemeral feeling than usual, and perhaps by a good deal. Yet it is here.
2) We are taught in the martial arts to do something called "punching through." When learning to break wood slats and such - I never made it past styrofoam - the idea is NOT to punch the slat but rather THROUGH it, to a point about 6 inches on the other side.
3) These first 3 weeks of 2021 are indeed the slat in front of us. And our victory joy, should we taste it, will be on the other side. Can you picture Trump's 2021 State Of The Union speech? Can picture the media uproar when they discover that we will NOT surrender to the steal?
2) And here's yesterday's 85-tweet thread. Do mind that Twitter breaks it at #31. You have to hit "show replies" and then my bandaid shows up, where I reattached #34. Click on it and you should be able to go the distance.
3) I'm not sure how the spirit will move me tomorrow morning, but assuming I can finish up our last 9 slides today, I may see if I can't organize the entire suite of threads I've completed on J.E.'s 2 articles to date. We'll see, but that's what I'm thinking right now.
Prepping for today's thread, the story of the CURRENT CYBERWAR is clearly overwhelming. J.E. Dyer @OptimisticCon links us to this story. Just one quote to follow:
"This is a much bigger story than one single agency," said one of Reuters' sources. "This is a huge cyber espionage campaign targeting the U.S. government and its interests."
The upshot is that there is also much misdirection and confusion being sown. But the fact that SolarWinds Orion platform was hacked is gigantic. We'll learn more in J.E.'s next link, here:
2) As I see information coming in, it appears to me that J.E.'s article has had quite an impact around the power circles in DC, and obviously here at Twitter and across the Internet. One bit of evidence of that is a piece attributed to Candace Owen. Here it is in 3 screenshots.
3) Frankly, the writing style, and other editorial markers make think it probably isn't from Candice. I did, by the way, paste it into a word doc, added the numbering, and took the liberty to correct some typos and spelling errors. It's "Madeleine Albright," one l, not two.