More new info on vaccines and transmission Research by Maccabi, an Israeli HMO, showed a 60% drop in detected Sars-CoV-2 in PCR tests among people vaccinated with the first Pfizer/BioNTech dose after 13 days.
Unlike the Clalit study, this one isn't restricted to the 60+ age group and looks at 430k vaccinated people according to the Channel 12 news report.
This would suggest that the Pfizer vaccine, even at first dose, cuts transmission by AT LEAST 60%. Clalit's data suggested AT LEAST 33% infectivity cut for the over-60s.
@_MAArgentino The Sovereign Citizens are a really weird movement that exist, in their own flavours, around the world.
@_MAArgentino Basically, Sovereign Citizens believe that the modern Government is a corporation and laws are only binding because people opt into them.
There won't be a rerun of Jan 6. The riot at the Capitol was unique in many ways: Trump called for it; it was the last chance to "overturn" the election; it was huge in scale.
The coming Trumpist events on Jan 17 and Jan 20 will probably be much smaller in scale, especially in DC. The MAGA crew can't buy another flight and take more days off work so soon after Jan 6.
Some of the Trumpist forums are actively suspicious of these events, claiming they're FBI or Antifa traps. A lot of people at TDW felt that the *design* of this flyer was too lefty to be real!
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.
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.