America is in freefall because what used to be one of the nation’s two political parties has abandoned the American experiment. This article confirms the GOP as an insurrectionist entity; Democrats must govern—to the extent they can—like it does not exist. cnn.com/2021/12/19/pol…
(PS) It’s outrageous that CNN changed the headline of this report from what it was, which was something along the lines of, “GOP Indicates It Won’t Confirm Any Biden Supreme Court Nominee.” That’s what the content of the article establishes and that’s what the headline should be.
(PS2) Republican leadership has declared war on America by political and legal means, even as it has coddled millions of GOP voters who’d like to declare war on the American people via other means. Democrats must respond in an emergency fashion and expand the Supreme Court *now*.
(PS3) Never again wonder why so many Romans failed to see that Rome was falling.

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20 Dec
The worst day of the pandemic in the US was January 8—48 hours after Trump’s attempted coup. 300,000 Americans were infected by the virus. No other day approaches that number. The outgoing CDC director says the CDC fears a *million* Americans a day could be infected with Omicron.
The fear here isn’t simply that the unvaccinated will be hospitalized and die in record numbers—which Dr. Fauci said yesterday on CNN he believes *will* happen—but also that Omicron will cause a historic number of breakthrough infections... and *those people* will infect others.
There are many otherwise smart and responsible people who’ve acted stupidly, selfishly, arrogantly and recklessly with respect to this pandemic because they feel they have a justification for it or because they think vaccination status is the beginning and ending of the question.
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19 Dec
Joe Manchin, who represents one of the poorest states in America, says he can’t vote for Build Back Better—a historic piece of legislation aimed at bolstering the social safety net—because he can’t “explain” it in West Virginia.

If he’s that *thick*, he shouldn’t be in politics.
I’ll tell you one place Manchin *actually* can’t explain Build Back Better: at his 4-figure lunches with energy industry lobbyists and other fat cats.

He’s provided no evidence that West Virginia citizens—the ones who voted him into office—wouldn’t benefit from this legislation.
The notion that the hundreds of thousands of desperately poor West Virginians are clamoring for their chief elected representative to *block* paid family medical leave and *block* countless provisions that would change their lives for the better isn’t just farcical but *obscene*.
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18 Dec
The Trump-Ukraine scandal we were told not to focus on beyond a single call—and which I wrote a bestseller on—had as its aim the theft of the election. Guess who PROOF OF CORRUPTION said was at the plot’s heart?

Perry.

Maybe media should read the book? cnn.com/2021/12/17/pol…
Most Americans will have no idea of the significance of this Rick Perry text, because major media did nothing to inform them of the sprawling Trump-Ukraine scandal aimed at the heart of the 2020 election. Media deemed the story too complex to report—now we’ll all suffer for that.
Perry’s job was to help Trump bribe foreign officials into publishing info about Biden they knew was false—thereby helping Trump steal the election. Here, Perry is aiding a foreign national-supported coup by embracing disinformation and implying Trump is above the law.

Get it?
Read 11 tweets
18 Dec
The lack of an answer to this question is the most significant cause of burnout among leading January 6 researchers and journalists.

DOJ has given us nothing—nothing—to sustain us as we find ourselves fearing we care about rule of law and the future of America more than it does.
If AG Garland doesn’t pursue the coup *plotters*, he’ll rightly go down as one of the worst AGs in US history. And if Biden presides over a de facto amnesty for insurrectionist kingpins that leads to the end of our democracy in 2024, he will have been one of our worst presidents.
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17 Dec
IMPORTANT

Many non-lawyers don’t know you can’t claim your answers to questions would tend to incriminate you to avoid a subpoena then give a press conference declaring you did nothing wrong

Stone’s actions won’t stand, and he will end up being charged with Contempt of Congress
What supervillain Roger Stone needed to do if he wanted to take this approach was answer as many questions as possible, assert the Fifth Amendment to any questions he/his lawyer felt may tend to incriminate him, then for the first time in his sad life not give a press conference
Normally it’s difficult to assess if an invocation of the Fifth Amendment has been made in good faith, but it’s not difficult when immediately after the invocation the witness gives a televised presser saying he couldn’t possibly incriminate himself because he "did nothing wrong"
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17 Dec
(THREAD) With the BREAKING NEWS that Trump adviser Roger Stone told Congress his testimony about January 6 would tend to incriminate him and subject him to prosecution, PROOF is posting this thread of its reporting on Stone—for which Stone threatened to sue PROOF. Please RETWEET.
(NOTE) This thread will lengthy and chronological—ranging from the first PROOF report on Stone's January 6 actions to the most recent. Many of the articles in this thread are free, some are only for subscribers ($5/month). You can subscribe to PROOF below: sethabramson.substack.com
1/ PROOF (January 15): "The Florida Connection to the January 6 Insurrection" sethabramson.substack.com/p/the-florida-…
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