So who's running America now? Who's making decisions? If an Iranian-backed militia shelled a US base in Iraq, who would decide on the scale of the response?
They can't just keep Trump locked in a cupboard for two weeks and hope nobody needs to make any decisions. Better to invoke the 25th Amendment for real
I get it. Nobody wants the hassle. Between Pence, SecDef and the White House staff, they can maybe keep things ticking over. It's easier this way.
But if there's a crisis, even a small one, someone has to be in charge. Someone with the legal authority to give orders and make decisions.
If Trump can't be that person, they need to use the 25th now. It's less risky than this weird limbo.
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So, I think we'll see Trump announce a 2024 run in the next couple of days, to keep himself relevant and in the news. But...
There's a lot of anger in the MAGA base against Trump himself. They believed him when he said the election was stolen. They believed he'd overturn the result.
The core MAGA crowd were excited to see what Trump had planned to stay in office and make "liberals' heads explode". They trusted the plan.
Trump: I hope Mike Pence does the right thing. If he does the right thing we win the election... all VP Pence has to do is send it back to the state and we [sic] become President and you're the happiest people.
Trump: I said to Mike [Pence], that doesn't take courage. What takes courage is doing nothing.
On Biden becoming President, he says "We're not going to let that happen".
Trump is now talking about how the Biden Administration will take Jefferson's name off the monument.
Every HMO has a website, an app, phone lines. Israelis interact with their HMO to make appointments, get test results and manage prescriptions all in a single place.
The HMOs sent alerts to all over-60s and text messages to their phones: "you are eligible to make an appointment for a coronavirus vaccine".
Basically everything in Lin Wood's thread is part of the broad QAnon conspiracy: supposed videos of abuse and murder, Kappy's suicide, secret keys, intel agencies.
(The only thing that's new to me is involving the Lizard Squad hacker group, but I'm sure that's just cos I missed it).
In England, 521,594 people had received the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine by Sunday 20 December. Of those, 367k, 70%, were over the age of 80.
There are something like 2.5 million people in England and Wales over the age of 80, so this is impressive but there's a long way still to go.
Israel vaccinated 60k people yesterday, up to 1.4% of the total population, but is offering the vaccine to all under-60s, which leaves some of the oldest, most vulnerable people fighting for appointment slots.