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Alastair Thompson Profile picture
@althecat
Jan 7, 2023 • 33 tweets • 13 min read • Read on X
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Complete and utter disgrace.

Kevin McCarthy becoming speaker - after caving to the Freedom/Insurrection Caucus - IF IT HAPPENS - will be an historic American democratic obscenity.

And it won't even deliver a working majority. [fortunately]

#GOPCannotCOUNT
#GOPSpull #Jan6th
Let the vommit fest begin. The world's most dysfunctional democracy, takes yet another giant leap backwards.
This is quite good. This could well get disorderly.
Excellent... the full roll may need to be read to get a result... two GOP extremist wildcards played so far.
Thankfully @MSNBC has someone who can count.
More wildcards....
Hunt voted for McCarthy keeping him in the race....
Its worth pointing out that both Rep's Gates and Gossar (the reps who may make the final votes for McCarthy) are criminals - Gaetz a child trafficker and sexual predator - the other a notorious extremist insurrectionist who will hopefully be indicted soon.
Another vote for Andy Biggs.

According to National Treasure @SteveKornacki

@RepMattGaetz - a sexual predator is now forecast to cast the critical vote to appoint the next US Speaker.
Its worth pointing out that both GOP Representives Gaetz and Gossar (the reps who may make the final votes for McCarthy) are criminals - one a child trafficker and sexual abuser - the other a notoriious insurrectionist who will hopefully be indicted soon.
Here's the sexual predator who is now the only person who can take McCarthy into the speakership.
He didn't get enough. Another failure...... McCarthy is not speaker.
yet... Tool McCarthy is now offering to kiss a sexual predator's ring.
Gaetz didnt let him.
This is so fucked up.

American Democracy is in complete disarray.

I should feel unhappy about this. But I expect I am on the same side as a vast majority of US Voters. Who will be happy with this meltdown.

A majority already disrespect Congress. All of it.
Looks like it might be closed by the Clerk...... (at least that's what @MSNBC's crew is saying.
The vote has been closed. @kevinomccarthy 216 - @RepJeffries 2012 - Jim Jordan 2 / Biggs 2 - complete fiasco. Again. And the house is rejecting the call to Adjourn. They are going to do another roll call.
This could lead to a debate now I presume. Don't know enough about the rules.
Electrifying TV. And important. Very. Close to midnight now in DC.
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Here is the physical altercation that took place on the floor. It may not be the only one tonight.
2ND THREAD... will keep following till adjournment or decision.
McCarthy now has votes.. it seems. At least that's what McCarthy seems to think.
This means new nomination speeches. Which could be interesting.
The nomination speeches have commenced, this time starting with a nomination for Democratic nominee for the role of speaker Hakeem Jeffries (@RepJeffries)
@RepJeffries New tally....
Gaetz also voted "Present" this time - same as before. Still possible for McCarthy to make it.

Steve Kornacki is now projecting McCarthy to be appointed Speaker. Will be interesting if after this happens they proceed to pass a rules package.
McCarthy is not yet Speaker. Announcement now being run. McCarthy 216 to Jeffries 2012 - 6 Present.
It appears he is being mature about it.
Was definitely a complete disgrace/fiasco. And this clown is now Speaker. I wonder how long he will be able to hold on for.
Calm has descended, but they don't yet have any rules. That will wait till Monday.

Biden has just congratulated Speaker McCarthy.

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So @elonmusk has definitely opened the doors it seems to Pandora’s box.
He may have jumped the gun a little. But he has his reasons.

Germany & Magdeburg.

But the fuse was arguably lit when the CIA and FBI Commandeered Jack Dorsey’s Twitter for its own purposes.

I don’t think we are going back.

This is the new normal.
Welcome to the era of Trump.

This is what happens when you have a VERY Messy transition of power in the Global Hegemony.
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This video is about the work done by the “terrorist” who drove through the Magdeburg Christmas Market tonight at high speed killing injuring around 100 people.

How does a doctor practicing as a psychiatrist go from being a women’s rights defender focussed on Assisting Islamic women to escape an oppressive culture to being a multi murderer in his adopted country.

Meet @DrTalebJawad

A very unusual terrorist.
A good starting point for those interested in getting closer to the truth about what happened tonight is to visit @DrTalebJawad ‘s Twitter profile and look at his recent messages before the account gets locked.

It is immediately apparent that this is not your normal Islamic terrorist, in fact it quickly becomes apparent from his tweets that he was likely suffering from a psychotic break or something similar before he committed the horrific act of terrorism in Magdeburg.Image
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This incident took place in Magdeburg a city relatively near to where I am currently in Eastern Germany. It was fairly late evening. But the news exploded locally very quickly on Twitter.

And the initial speculation was of course that the terrorist was Islamic and that it was another planned terror attack.

At this point several hours later however it looks like the perpetrator was having an accrue psychological break.
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Follow ⁦@bartov_omer⁩ he is an Israeli Genocide Scholar and (my guess) a realist geopolitical analyst who will almost certainly be heard a lot in coming days and weeks. x.com/bartov_omer?s=…
…. In large part because his explanation of the true nature of the implementation of the current phase of the so-called “general’s plan” in Gaza and the criminality of @IsraeliPM Bibi Netanyahu is so clear and authoritative.
The war in Gaza is now over Bartov explains.

What is now happening, and what remains to be done on the a Israeli side is effectively the implementation of the full Zionist extremist (Ben Givir Smotrich and Netanyahu plan - I.e. removing Palestinians from Gaza altogether, an object that will be achieved through starving the remaining civilians and using other methods to make it impossible to continue to live there.

The strip is already being carved up into enclaves for this purpose. You could call them “Ghettos” (my word) corralling and keeping the Palestinian population separated whilst efforts to remake and settle the strip are completed.
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. @amanpour It’s not just the IDF that responds to press questions with rote answers that are clearly false.

The U.S. @StateDept has been doing exactly the same thing throughout the war for 14 months. Parroting the line “Israel has a right to defend itself” when everyone in the planet knows this is not true.

I know you must know this also. We all do.
I commend your report but I ask you and your network to please go further and actively oppose this war. And to call for it to end.

It is clear now in recent statements from Trump and Netanyahu that another war is intended in the Middle East by the U.S. and Israel. Its advocates will stood start lining up to beat the drums for this war.

Please @CNN, it is now time to end all of this.
The question we all have then is “When will the U.S. bring this evil to an end?”

A war with Iran 21 years after the horrific war in Iraq will have devastating consequences beyond imagining.

In its unwavering support for Netanyahu these past 14 months the U.S. is in the process now of destroying itself. Just as Israel is, or has done already.
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The first speaker in this star studded panel here is sober clear and damning.

“… featuring Mustafa Barghouti, Mads Gilbert, Ilan Pappe, and Ingrid Fiskaa – discusses and critically explores three key areas: the present moment where Gaza remains under constant genocidal attack from Israel; the so-called “legitimacy” of the rules-based order (including but not limited to international law) that’s supposed to prevent or stop such violence; and the future of rebuilding Gaza in a way that actually honours the hopes, dreams and aspirations of the Palestinian people.”

The panel is moderated by Paul Salvatori, senior producer and presenter at TRT World.

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As Christmas and the New Year approach, reflection, both self and outward looking are part of the zeitgeist for the faithful throughout the world.

As it stands this Christmas in Bethlehem will be the “second Christmas during an ongoing Genocide”. Placed in quote marks here because it seems hard to reconcile with reality.

How can this still be continuing?

How is it that the @Statedept even now - 15 months after October 7th and more recently the defeat of both Hezbollah and Assad - is still mostly saying “Israel has a right to defend itself. As massacres of 50-80 Gaza civilians - predominantly women and children - continue to occur on a daily basis.
Could there at least be a Christmas and New Years Truce? A brief silencing of the guns, a break from the endless massacre of innocents via fire-from-the-sky, as if Gaza were now Mordor.

It is certainly already nearly as desolate.

Someone needs to ask Bibi Netanyahu who is unusually and nearly singularly responsibility for all of this. WHEN AND HOW DOES THIS END?
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There is a new chapter on the story of Mosab Hassan Yousef.

This is the original production of this. But he will soon be known far better than he was when Chris Cuomo brought his story to life here back in December 2023 at the outset of the war, in the wake of January 7th.

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“The Muslim Brotherhood is Here in the United States.”

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The target of this messaging is Americans. Not me.

And probably not you, even though a large portion of my followers are in the U.S.
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