FACT: Prior to 1/6, Trump lawyer John Eastman told Trump that (1) Team Trump needed 5-10 days to get GOP-led state legislatures to decertify Biden's win; (2) by law, if the joint session began it couldn't be adjourned. So it had to either never begin or be impossible to continue.
(PS) If you understand that one fact, you understand 1/6.
(PS2) You also understand why some paramilitary groups left Trump's speech early—and some never went at all. The attack had to begin at a certain time to achieve either of its objectives: 1) stop the session beginning; or 2) make it impossible to continue prior to certification.
(PS3) PROOF has established that both Trump's legal team and Trump's political campaign were in touch with paramilitary extremists both before January 6 and on January 6.
The paramilitary extremists knew *exactly* what had to happen for Trump to get Biden's electors decertified.
(PS4) So all the far-right BS about "if we'd wanted to stage a coup, we would have ____________" is nonsense. All of the paramilitary groups involved in the attack were well aware that what was needed was a postponement of the joint session; a government takeover wasn't the plan.
(PS5) Look at it another way: there was *no Trumpist plan to "win" the joint session*—yet Team Trump was *convinced he could continue as POTUS*. Why? Because it firmly believed that the events of January 6 would require a postponement of the joint session. Do the math from there.
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(🔓) BREAKING NEWS: Team Trump Isn't Waiting Until 2024 to Find Corrupt Republicans Willing to End Our Democracy—Which Is Why Its Insurrectionist Plot Has Moved On to Blood-Red Idaho
PS/ The scariest thing about this new reporting, to me, is that it'll only take *one* corrupt GOP official to complete this stage of Trump's insurrectionist plot. Just one—anywhere in America—who's willing to risk fraud charges in order to please Donald Trump and 78% of the GOP.
PS2/ In this respect, the Biden DOJ's refusal to charge—or even interrogate, subpoena, raid, or submit demand letters to—any of the insurrection plotters sends a terrifying message to local GOP officials: the DOJ doesn't have the will to prosecute politicians on sedition charges.
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(🔐) NEW: Curatorial journalism can be used to get at the truth of matters in many different fields—which is why PROOF has launched a new series entitled "The Definitive Top 100." Today the series comes to Proof Games, where it tackles an age-old question. sethabramson.substack.com/p/the-definiti…
(🔐) Previously on PROOF in The Definitive Top 100 series: The Best Video Game Consoles (as determined by a curation of hundreds of data-points from 55 industry outlets and experts). sethabramson.substack.com/p/new-from-55-…
(PS) I expect that Big Data will come to other sections of PROOF as well, with The Definitive Top 100 series also appearing in other sections of the publication on occasion.
I need to start watching Badger football with the volume off. It was 3rd and 14 and the color commentator was talking about how good the UW secondary is. I said to myself no, it's terrible this year, and Michigan will get this first down and a touchdown.
Michigan 7, Wisconsin 0.
Your archetypal Wisconsin Badgers team, year after year after year, is the same:
QB: Bad to Average
RB: Good to Great
FB: Good to Great
OL: Great
DL: Average to Good
LB: Great
CB: Bad to Average
S: Bad to Average
K: Average
P: Bad to Average
If Americans understood what a run-of-the-mill misdemeanor trespassing case looks like, they'd be *scandalized* by the notion that federal defendants who breached the Capitol during what they fully understood was a violent insurrection are getting misdemeanor trespassing charges.
(PS) By way of analogy, federal prosecutors are taking individuals who committed a felony home invasion in which they hung out in the kitchen in which a bound-and-gagged family was being threatened with a knife by their co-conspirator and charging them with attempted shoplifting.
(PS2) Please understand this: the violent attack on the Capitol on January 6 isn't being taken seriously by federal prosecutors. It's not being treated as a historic assault on America. And the plotters are getting away with it. And that's why something similar will happen again.
(Mostly looking for avid retro gamers to weigh in here.)
🔸 Cobra Triangle
🔸 Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat
🔸 Eliminator Boat Duel
🔸 Excitebike
🔸 Formula One: Built to Win
🔸 Micro Machines
🔸 R.C. Pro Am
🔸 Rad Racer
🔸 Super Off Road
More:
🔸 Al Unser Jr.'s Turbo Racing
🔸 Bigfoot: Collision Course
🔸 Bill Elliott's NASCAR Challenge
🔸 Days of Thunder
🔸 Galaxy 5000
🔸 Mach Rider
🔸 Michael Andretti's World GP
🔸 Nigel Mansell's World Championship
🔸 R.C. Pro Am II
🔸 Rad Racer II
🔸 Seicross
🔸 Super Sprint
(PS) I just want to point out that the "right" answers here (😁) are R.C. Pro-Am and Formula One: Built to Win. It's a damn shame not one person has mentioned the latter game—which is unbelievably good! It blows Rad Racer away. (I have a special place in my heart for Excitebike.)