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2021-11-30 at 3:55 PM UTC in STICK IT, Damn It!
Originally posted by ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The Georgia Guidestones are a granite monument erected in 1980 in Elbert County, Georgia, in the United States. A set of ten guidelines is inscribed on the structure in eight modern languages and a shorter message is inscribed at the top of the structure in four ancient language scripts.
The monument stands at an approximate elevation of 750 feet (230 m) above sea level, about 90 miles (140 km) east of Atlanta, 45 miles (72 km) from Athens, Georgia and 9 miles (14 km) north of the center of the city of Elberton.
One slab stands in the center, with four arranged around it. A capstone lies on top of the five slabs, which are astronomically aligned. An additional stone tablet, which is set in the ground a short distance to the west of the structure, provides some notes on the history and purpose of the guidestones. The structure is sometimes referred to as an "American Stonehenge". The monument is 19 feet 3 inches (5.87 m) tall, made from six granite slabs weighing 237,746 pounds (107,840 kg) in all. The anonymity of the guidestones' authors and their apparent advocacy of population control, eugenics, and internationalism have made them an object of controversy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones
And...this has what to do with the government, whackadoodle?
Was this monument up during Rump's Reign of Terror? It must be his fault! -
2021-11-30 at 3:45 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty's
Originally posted by ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ "Facts"… like the four-year-long Russian hoax "facts", which turned out to be not facts at all. Makes one wonder what other "facts" these hoaxers perpetuated.
WRONG.
This just wants to make me know more about what the Republicans covered up by refusing to allow an investigation and believe the bullshit put out by a sociopathic liar consumed by himself over his country, democracy and the good of the nation. -
2021-11-30 at 2:52 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sThe Guardian
Trump called aides hours before Capitol riot to discuss how to stop Biden victory
Hugo Lowell in Washington
Hours before the deadly attack on the US Capitol this year, Donald Trump made several calls from the White House to top lieutenants at the Willard hotel in Washington and talked about ways to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s election win from taking place on 6 January.
The former president first told the lieutenants his vice-president, Mike Pence, was reluctant to go along with the plan to commandeer his largely ceremonial role at the joint session of Congress in a way that would allow Trump to retain the presidency for a second term.
But as Trump relayed to them the situation with Pence, he pressed his lieutenants about how to stop Biden’s certification from taking place on 6 January, and delay the certification process to get alternate slates of electors for Trump sent to Congress.
The former president’s remarks came as part of strategy discussions he had from the White House with the lieutenants at the Willard – a team led by Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Boris Epshteyn and Trump strategist Steve Bannon – about delaying the certification.
Multiple sources, speaking to the Guardian on the condition of anonymity, described Trump’s involvement in the effort to subvert the results of the 2020 election.
Trump’s remarks reveal a direct line from the White House and the command center at the Willard. The conversations also show Trump’s thoughts appear to be in line with the motivations of the pro-Trump mob that carried out the Capitol attack and halted Biden’s certification, until it was later ratified by Congress.
The former president’s call to the Willard hotel about stopping Biden’s certification is increasingly a central focus of the House select committee’s investigation into the Capitol attack, as it raises the specter of a possible connection between Trump and the insurrection.
Several Trump lawyers at the Willard that night deny Trump sought to stop the certification of Biden’s election win. They say they only considered delaying Biden’s certification at the request of state legislators because of voter fraud.
The former president made several calls to the lieutenants at the Willard the night before 6 January. He phoned the lawyers and the non-lawyers separately, as Giuliani did not want non-lawyers to participate on legal calls and jeopardise attorney-client privilege.
Trump’s call to the lieutenants came a day after Eastman, a late addition to the Trump legal team, outlined at a 4 January meeting at the White House how he thought Pence could usurp his role in order to stop Biden’s certification from happening at the joint session.
At the meeting, which was held in the Oval Office and attended by Trump, Pence, Pence’s chief of staff Marc Short and his legal counsel Greg Jacob, Eastman presented a memo that detailed how Pence could insert himself into the certification and delay the process.
The memo outlined several ways for Pence to commandeer his role at the joint session, including throwing the election to the House, or adjourning the session to give states time to send slates of electors for Trump on the basis of election fraud – Eastman’s preference.
Then– acting attorney general Jeff Rosen and his predecessor, Bill Barr, who had both been appointed by Trump, had already determined there was no evidence of fraud sufficient to change the outcome of the 2020 election.
Eastman told the Guardian last month that the memo only presented scenarios and was not intended as advice. “The advice I gave the vice-president very explicitly was that I did not think he had the authority simply to declare which electors to count,” Eastman said.
Trump seized on the memo – first reported by Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa in their book Peril – and pushed Pence to adopt the schemes, which some of the other lieutenants at the Willard later told Trump were legitimate ways to flip the election.
But Pence resisted Trump’s entreaties, and told him in the Oval Office the next day that Trump should count him out of whatever plans he had to subvert the results of the 2020 election at the joint session, because he did not intend to take part.
Trump was furious at Pence for refusing to do him a final favor when, in the critical moment underpinning the effort to reinstall Trump as president, he phoned lieutenants at the Willard sometime between the late evening on 5 January and the early hours of 6 January.
From the White House, Trump made several calls to lieutenants, including Giuliani, Eastman, Epshteyn and Bannon, who were huddled in suites complete with espresso machines and Cokes in a mini-fridge in the north-west corner of the hotel.
On the calls, the former president first recounted what had transpired in the Oval Office meeting with Pence, informing Bannon and the lawyers at the Willard that his vice-president appeared ready to abandon him at the joint session in several hours’ time.
The former president is said to have enjoyed watching the insurrection unfold from the dining room
“He’s arrogant,” Trump, for instance, told Bannon of Pence – his own way of communicating that Pence was unlikely to play ball – in an exchange reported in Peril and confirmed by the Guardian.
But on at least one of those calls, Trump also sought from the lawyers at the Willard ways to stop the joint session to ensure Biden would not be certified as president on 6 January, as part of a wider discussion about buying time to get states to send Trump electors.
The fallback that Trump and his lieutenants appeared to settle on was to cajole Republican members of Congress to raise enough objections so that even without Pence adjourning the joint session, the certification process would be delayed for states to send Trump slates.
It was not clear whether Trump discussed on the call about the prospect of stopping Biden’s certification by any means if Pence refused to insert himself into the process, but the former president is said to have enjoyed watching the insurrection unfold from the dining room.
But the fact that Trump considered ways to stop the joint session may help to explain why he was so reluctant to call off the rioters and why Republican senator Ben Sasse told conservative talk show host Hugh Hewitt that he heard Trump seemed “delighted” about the attack.
The lead Trump lawyer at the Willard, Giuliani, appearing to follow that fallback plan, called at least one Republican senator later that same evening, asking him to help keep Congress adjourned and stall the joint session beyond 6 January.
In a voicemail recorded at about 7pm on 6 January, and reported by the Dispatch, Giuliani implored Republican senator Tommy Tuberville to object to 10 states Biden won once Congress reconvened at 8pm, a process that would have concluded 15 hours later, close to 7 January.
“The only strategy we can follow is to object to numerous states and raise issues so that we get ourselves into tomorrow – ideally until the end of tomorrow,” Giuliani said.
Liz Harrington, a spokesperson for Trump, disputed the account of Trump’s call after publication. “This is totally false,” Harrington said, without giving specifics. Giuliani did not respond to a request for comment. Eastman, Epshteyn and Bannon declined to comment.
Trump made several calls the day before the Capitol attack from both the White House residence, his preferred place to work, as well as the West Wing, but it was not certain from which location he phoned his top lieutenants at the Willard.
The White House residence and its Yellow Oval Room – a Trump favorite – is significant since communications there, including from a desk phone, are not automatically memorialized in records sent to the National Archives after the end of an administration.
But even if Trump called his lieutenants from the West Wing, the select committee may not be able to fully uncover the extent of his involvement in the events of 6 January, unless House investigators secure testimony from individuals with knowledge of the calls.
That difficulty arises since calls from the White House are not necessarily recorded, and call detail records that the select committee is suing to pry free from the National Archives over Trump’s objections about executive privilege, only show the destination of the calls.
House select committee investigators this month opened a new line of inquiry into activities at the Willard hotel, just across the street from the White House, issuing subpoenas to Eastman and former New York police commissioner Bernard Kerik, an assistant to Giuliani.
The chairman of the select committee, Bennie Thompson, said in a statement that the panel was pursuing the Trump officials at the Willard to uncover “every detail about their efforts to overturn the election, including who they were talking to in the White House and in Congress”. -
2021-11-30 at 8:16 AM UTC in What are you listening to right now, space nigga?
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2021-11-30 at 7:04 AM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sTL/DR
Business Insider
Former spy chief said Trump was 'fact-free' and would 'fly off on tangents' during intel briefings, book says
rpickrell@businessinsider.com (Ryan Pickrell,Sonam Sheth)
Trump was "fact-free" and would often "fly off on tangents" during intel briefings, a new book says.
The former DNI said Trump got distracted so often that an hour of discussion amounted to "eight or nine minutes of real intelligence."
The book says Trump's transition was the hardest in the intel community's experience with briefing presidents.
As president-elect, Donald Trump was "fact-free" and would often "fly off on tangents" during intelligence briefings, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said in a book written by a former CIA officer and recently published by the CIA's Center for the Study of Intelligence.
John Helgerson, the author of the book and the CIA inspector general from 2002 until he retired in 2009, writes that for the intelligence community, "the Trump transition was far and away the most difficult in its historical experience with briefing new presidents."
Helgerson, whose book "Getting to Know the President" was first published in 1996 and has since been updated to include information on later presidents, said the only possible comparison could be Richard Nixon, who distrusted the intelligence community. But "rather than shut the IC out, Trump engaged with it, but attacked it publicly," he added, referring to the intelligence community.
Helgerson writes in his book that James Clapper, who was the director of national intelligence during the transition period, felt that behind the scenes, Trump could be "courteous, affable, and complimentary of the IC." The book says that during one of his early briefings, Trump said that "the nasty things" he was saying in public about the intelligence community did not apply to the briefers.
Trump received presidential briefings about twice a week and is said to have received fewer briefings than other new presidents, who were often briefed daily. But Trump devoted more time to his briefings — about 40 to 60 minutes.
That said, Trump was widely known to veer off course and get distracted during his briefings. In the early days of his presidency, he told officials that he wanted briefings to be shorter and full of "killer graphics," The Washington Post previously reported.
Trump's lack of attentiveness prompted briefers to overhaul their playbook and instead structure his daily briefs to include more graphics, charts, and tables, The New York Times previously reported. National security officials also sprinkled Trump's own name into his briefings as part of their effort to get him to pay more attention, Reuters reported. At one point, they began simplifying his briefings to focus on a single key point to get through to him, "A Warning," a book by the former Trump administration official Miles Taylor, says.
"He doesn't really read anything," one of Trump's former briefers said, according to Helgerson's book. Clapper apparently agreed, saying, "Trump doesn't read much."
"Trump's style," Helgerson writes, "was to listen to the key points, discuss them with some care, then lead the discussion to related issues and others further afield."
Clapper said that during the intelligence briefings, Trump had a tendency to "fly off on tangents" in such a way that "there might be eight or nine minutes of real intelligence in an hour's discussion," the book says.
There were other challenges as well for the officials tasked with putting together the presidential briefings, the book says. "The irreconcilable difference, in Clapper's view, was that the IC worked with evidence," Helgerson writes, adding that Trump "was 'fact-free' — evidence doesn't cut it with him."
Helgerson's book says that Trump "digested the key points offered by the briefers, asked questions, engaged in discussion, made his own priority interests known, and used the information as a basis for discussions with his policy advisers."
"The system worked, but it struggled," Helgerson writes.
One former briefer, Beth Sanner, said that while Trump did not read the presidential daily briefings, he would bring other things to the conversations.
Helgerson, citing an interview Sanner did with the Center for the Study of Intelligence earlier this year, writes that while intelligence briefings continued even after the 2020 presidential election, no additional briefings were scheduled after the January 6 riot at the US Capitol. -
2021-11-29 at 5:34 PM UTC in What do you do with your Anger?I make fun of Republicans.
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2021-11-28 at 8:17 PM UTC in STICK IT, Damn It!
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2021-11-28 at 7:10 PM UTC in You ever go horny surfing?
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2021-11-28 at 5:54 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sRolling Stone
A Guide to All the Times Mike Lindell and QAnon Promised Trump Would Definitely Be Back in the White House
The pillow baron may be the most obnoxious believer that the former president is returning to office soon, but a disturbing number of Americans are right there with him
By RYAN BORT
It’s Thanksgiving, and with all due respect to any relatives who may have colorful takes on vaccine mandates, critical race theory, and the Rittenhouse verdict, the craziest uncle of 2021 is, without a doubt, Mike Lindell.
The pillow baron has for a year now been claiming vociferously that the 2020 election was rigged, that he can prove it, and that it won’t be long before everyone realizes the truth and Donald Trump is reinstated as president of the United States. Lindell most recently trumpeted Thanksgiving as the date Trump will be back in office. He has promoted a 96-hour holiday weekend livestream in which he will unpack “the historic U.S. Supreme Court complaint on the 2020 election” he says will reinstall Trump in the White House. (The livestream got off to a rocky start.)
Lindell is a clown and easy to mock. So is the idea that there is any sort of legal pathway for Trump, who lost to President Biden by a considerable margin, to be reinstated as president. But just because something is easy to mock doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be taken seriously (see: the 45th president himself).
The idea that Trump will return to office has been spreading throughout the MAGA movement since January. A Politico/Morning Consult poll published in June found that 29 percent of Republicans believe this is actually going to happen by the end of the year. A YouGov poll conducted in early November found that 28 percent of Republicans believed it was either “very likely” or “somewhat likely” Trump would be back in office by the end of the year.
In other words, millions and millions and millions of people have, like Lindell, lost touch with reality to a truly terrifying degree. Many of them are determined to stay out in orbit, perpetually setting and resetting dates Trump will definitely, this time, return to power. It can be a little hard to track all of these deadlines, so here’s a guide to one of the year’s most unhinged conspiracy-theory rabbit holes, which doesn’t appear to have a bottom.
Jan. 20: QAnon is based on the belief that the world is run by a cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles, and that Trump in his capacity as president was going bring all of these people to justice. The fact that he got trounced by Biden last November accelerated the timeline for this to happen, and once the election results were certified on Jan. 6, conspiracy theorists decided he was going to do it on Biden’s inauguration day, while at the same time revealing a secret plan to remain in office. This did not happen. QAnon adherents were confused, but not deterred. In fact, they were more not-deterred than anyone realized possible.
March 4: Yeah, Biden was inaugurated on Jan. 20. So what? The real Inauguration Day is March 4, conspiracy theorists claimed, and it was on March 4, 2021, that Trump would be sworn in for his second term.
The theory hinged on the idea that, in 1871, Congress turned the government into a corporation, and that every president who has held office since is illegitimate. March 4 served as Inauguration Day prior to 1933, when the 20th Amendment was passed, and it would be on this day that Trump would be inaugurated as the 19th president, or the first legitimate successor to Ulysses S. Grant. (Don’t think too hard about the logic here. It’s not supposed to make sense.)
The theory became widespread enough that hashtags like #march4th and #19thpresident started spreading across social media. The Capitol Police even warned of a “possible plot to breach the Capitol by an identified militia group” on the date, leading the House of Representatives to cancel plans for a session.
March 20: OK, nothing happened on March 4. What about March 20? It’s basically the same thing, right? I mean, when you think about it, all that’s differentiating the two dates are things like time and math, both of which are being foisted on us by liberal scientists. Can we just say he’ll come back on the 20th, instead?
There were corners of QAnon that did indeed say this, citing the Presidential Enhancement Act. Signed into law in 2020, the act is designed to smooth the transition of power by, in part, providing certain support to the president-elect’s team for 60 days after the inauguration. Conspiracy theorists misinterpreted this to mean that Trump retained control of the freaking military for 60 days after inauguration, and that the official transfer of power would not take place until March 20.
Aug. 13: All right, March was a bad month for conspiracy theorists. It was time to take a breather and really figure out when Trump was going to return to power. Lindell announced on March 29 that it was happening in August, citing all of the evidence of election fraud he was going to show the Supreme Court.
It wasn’t just Lindell, either. Trump himself had been telling people he expected to be back in the White House by August, as Maggie Haberman of The New York Times reported in June.
In July, Lindell locked down a specific date. “By the morning of Aug. 13 it’ll be the talk of the world, going, ‘Hurry up! Let’s get this election pulled down. Let’s right the right. Let’s get these communists out, you know, that have taken over,'” he told right-wing conspiracy theorist Bannon Howse.
Nov. 25: Nothing happened in August, either, but that’s OK. Lindell soon thereafter pegged Thanksgiving as the new date Trump would return to office based on his plan to deliver his “historic” election fraud complaint, which would be signed by state attorneys general, to the Supreme Court earlier this week. “I talked to all the lawyers today,” he said in September. “One hundred percent we are getting this before the Supreme Court before Thanksgiving. That is locked in stone, everybody.”
This did not happen.
Lindell explained why to Steve Bannon, noting that the attorneys general he claims to have spoken to “have so much going on right now that last Friday they gave them until today to fight these mandates where kids had to take the vaccine.” …OK. There are also, of course, the attorneys general who are refusing to sign onto the suit, whom Lindell said simply “don’t want to help save our country.”
“You know a lot of things are happening out there that are very suspicious,” he added.
Lindell also blamed Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, who he said on his livestream Monday pressured attorneys general not to sign the complaint. “How dare the RNC try and stop this case from getting to the Supreme Court,” he ranted. “Shame on you, RNC! You are worse than Fox now! You can’t tell me why Ronna McDaniel, the head of the RNC, made a statement saying Biden won three days before this Supreme Court complaint was supposed to go to the Supreme Court.”
Lindell even released the complaint that all of these traitors prevented him from filing in time for Turkey Day. It’s 82 pages long, chock full of disproven conspiracy theories, and lists the plaintiff as “State of [Insert Your State Here].” Lindell has said the complaint is so rock solid that the Supreme Court will rule in favor of [Insert Your State Here] unanimously, and that this will somehow result in Trump’s return to office.
It’s no longer going to happen by Thanksgiving, but it surely won’t take Lindell long to come up with another date to tell supporters to expect Trump to return to office. Go ahead and tune into his livestream and find out. He may even offer a promo code for a Black Friday pillow deal.
WEASEL, WHEN DID YOU SAY THE NEXT DATE WAS?
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2021-11-28 at 5:35 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sRolling Stone
Michael Cohen: Trump Pulled Off the ‘Greatest Grift in U.S. History,’ Will Not Run Again
Peter Wade
Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, said that he believes the former president will not run again, having already pulled off “the greatest grift in U.S. history” raising money from his supporters who believe his lies that the 2020 election was stolen from him.
Cohen, during a Meet the Press appearance on Sunday, said that Trump wants to keep the grift going and hopes to continue raising millions of dollars from his supporters to purportedly help overturn the election. According to Cohen, Trump running again in 2024 might put that in jeopardy.
“Yeah, so this should become a documentary, and it should be called the greatest grift in U.S. history. Donald Trump has made it very clear that he is grifting off of the American people, these supporters, these individuals that are just sending money to him at record levels,” Cohen said. “So, one of the biggest problems for Donald Trump is that he makes a statement, right, that ‘I’m thinking about it, I’m thinking about [running].’ That’s only to keep the grift growing and to keep the grift going.”
Cohen continued, saying that Trump would tease a potential run right up to the “very last second” when he will bow out, similar to what he did when he hinted at a run in 2011. Prolonging the possibility of a 2024 run, Cohen said, would allow the grift to continue.
“One of the things Donald Trump has done is grift off of the big lie, that the election was stolen from him in 2020. It was not stolen from him,” Cohen said. “If he loses, and he will in 2024, what happens to the big lie? The big lie disappears. He can’t now be like the boy who cried wolf. ‘Oh, they stole it from me in 2020, they now stole it from me in 2024.’ Right? Now that goes out the door, and there goes his money, there goes the big grift. So, like I said before, it’s not going to happen. He’s going to run it — like he did in 2011 — right to the very, very last second.”
Cohen, once Trump’s personal attorney and one of his closest allies, turned on him when he cooperated with law enforcement. He was sentenced to three years in prison in 2018 after pleading guilty to numerous crimes, including tax evasion and campaign finance violations in connection with paying off actor Stormy Daniels and model Karen McDougal to keep them silent during the 2020 campaign about their affairs with Trump. He is currently promoting a book, Disloyal, which he wrote about his time with Trump. -
2021-11-27 at 4:52 PM UTC in STICK IT, Damn It!
Originally posted by stl1 “Young people, in their 20s to just over their late 30s, are coming in with moderate to severe disease, some needing intensive care. About 65% are not vaccinated and most of the rest are only half-vaccinated,” said Mathivha. “I’m worried that as the numbers go up, the public health care facilities will become overwhelmed.”
“This is a unique opportunity. There’s still time for people who did not get vaccinated to go and get the vaccine, and that will provide some protection, we believe, against this infection, especially protection against severe infection, severe disease and death,” he said. “So I would call on people to vaccinate if they can.” -
2021-11-27 at 4:16 PM UTC in STICK IT, Damn It!South African scientists brace for wave propelled by omicron
By ANDREW MELDRUM, Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Worried scientists in South Africa are scrambling to combat the lightning spread across the country of the new and highly transmissible omicron COVID-19 variant as the world grapples with its emergence.
In the space of two weeks, the omicron variant has sent South Africa from a period of low transmission to rapid growth of new confirmed cases. The country’s numbers are still relatively low, with 2,828 new confirmed cases recorded Friday, but omicron’s speed in infecting young South Africans has alarmed health professionals.
“We’re seeing a marked change in the demographic profile of patients with COVID-19,” Rudo Mathivha, head of the intensive care unit at Soweto’s Baragwanath Hospital, told an online press briefing.
“Young people, in their 20s to just over their late 30s, are coming in with moderate to severe disease, some needing intensive care. About 65% are not vaccinated and most of the rest are only half-vaccinated,” said Mathivha. “I’m worried that as the numbers go up, the public health care facilities will become overwhelmed.”
She said urgent preparations are needed to enable public hospitals to cope with a potential large influx of patients needing intensive care.
“We know we have a new variant,” said Mathivha. “The worst case scenario is that it hits us like delta ... we need to have critical care beds ready.”
What looked like a cluster infection among some university students in Pretoria ballooned into hundreds of new cases and then thousands, first in the capital city and then to nearby Johannesburg, South Africa’s largest city.
Studying the surge, scientists identified the new variant that diagnostic tests indicate is likely responsible for as many as 90% of the new cases, according to South Africa’s health officials. Early studies show that it has a reproduction rate of 2 — meaning that every person infected by it is likely to spread it to two other people.
The new variant has a high number of mutations that appear to make it more transmissible and help it evade immune responses. The World Health Organization looked at the data on Friday and named the variant omicron, under its system of using Greek letters, calling it a highly transmissible variant of concern.
“It’s a huge concern. We all are terribly concerned about this virus,” Professor Willem Hanekom, director of the Africa Health Research Institute, told The Associated Press.
“This variant is mostly in Gauteng province, the Johannesburg area of South Africa. But we’ve got clues from diagnostic tests ... that suggest that this variant is already all over South Africa,” said Hanekom, who is also co-chair of the South African COVID Variant Research Consortium.
“The scientific reaction from within South Africa is that we need to learn as much as soon as possible. We know precious little,” he said. “For example, we do not know how virulent this virus is, which means how bad is this disease that it causes?”
A key factor is vaccination. The new variant appears to be spreading most quickly among those who are unvaccinated. Currently, only about 40% of adult South Africans are vaccinated, and the number is much lower among those in the 20 to 40-year-old age group.
South Africa has nearly 20 million doses of vaccines — made by Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson — but the numbers of people getting vaccines is about 120,000 per day, far below the government’s target of 300,000 per day.
As scientists try to learn more about omicron, the people of South Africa can take measures to protect themselves against it, said Hanekom.
“This is a unique opportunity. There’s still time for people who did not get vaccinated to go and get the vaccine, and that will provide some protection, we believe, against this infection, especially protection against severe infection, severe disease and death,” he said. “So I would call on people to vaccinate if they can.” -
2021-11-27 at 7:21 AM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty's
Originally posted by Donald Trump Whose fault is it that the jedis are currently involved in actively genociding Palestinians.
I have heard all sorts of copes. It's the Arab Leagues Fault, it's the Palestinians own fault, it's the PLA's fault, it's Irans fault, it's the PLA's fault, it's the Soviet Unions Fault, it's Syrias fault, it's Egypt's fault, it's Muslims fault, it's Evangelical Christian's faults, it's George W. Bushes Fault, it's the Republican Party's fault, it's the American people's fault.
Today I learned it's actual my fault.
The reason the jedis are genociding the palestinians is actually my fault.
What if what the jedis do is actually just the jedi's own fault? Wouldn't that just be a radical idea?
Everything bad is always Rump's fault. -
2021-11-26 at 7:28 PM UTC in Lala is teaching me how to driveThis is Frala demonstrating how she drives Lanny home:
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2021-11-26 at 7:22 PM UTC in Divorce?Get a really good job. Make lots and lots of money. Tell her to go fuck herself when she comes crawling back.
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2021-11-26 at 7:13 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sYou are not the one who should be disparaging others for believing a line of bullshit.
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2021-11-26 at 6:04 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sNewsweek
Mike Lindell Misses Self-Imposed Deadline to File Lawsuit Proving Trump Won in 2020
Jason Lemon
My Pillow founder Mike Lindell failed to meet his self-imposed Thanksgiving deadline to formally file a 2020 election challenge lawsuit with the Supreme Court.
Lindell, a staunch supporter of former President Donald Trump, has been a key promoter of the baseless conspiracy theory that 2020 election was "rigged" or "stolen" in favor of President Joe Biden. Although Trump and Lindell continue to tout the allegation, the so-called "evidence" they have put forward has been consistently discredited and debunked.
The pro-Trump businessman for weeks promised that he would finally file a lawsuit challenging the 2020 election results directly with the Supreme Court by Thanksgiving. He claimed that he would have the support of multiple states' attorneys general—but their support did not materialize and the much-touted Supreme Court lawsuit was not filed.
"We will have this before the Supreme Court before Thanksgiving," Lindell promised in September during an episode of former Trump administration official Steve Bannon's War Room podcast. "That's my promise to the people of this country."
On Tuesday, Lindell did publicly release a copy of his complaint which he hopes to file with the Supreme Court. "We are in unchartered [sic] territory as a Nation. The November 2020 election was stolen," the complaint alleges before going on to lay out a series of debunked and discredited conspiracy theories and dubious claims. It takes particular aim at key battleground states—including Arizona, Georgia and Pennsylvania.
Lindell claimed this week that the Republican National Committee (RNC) has been working to block his lawsuit from moving forward. During a Monday live stream on his website Frank Speech, the My Pillow founder took aim at RNC chair Ronna McDaniel and the GOP.
"We believe that they [the RNC] have reached out to multiple [attorneys general] and put pressure on them, not to sign the Supreme Court complaint," Lindell said.
"How dare the RNC try and stop this case from getting to the Supreme Court. Shame on you, RNC! You are worse than Fox now," he added.
Newsweek reached out to the RNC for comment but did not immediately receive a response.
Lindell, who continues to advertise My Pillow products on Fox News, has repeatedly attacked the conservative network for declining to promote his baseless claims. The Trump ally even organized a small protest outside of Fox New headquarters in Manhattan, New York this week, after claiming that the network was "controlled opposition" during his live stream last Friday.
Speaking to Bannon's podcast again on Wednesday, Lindell described Fox News as the "biggest election deflection ever." He said it's "disgusting what Fox has done," lamenting that the network doesn't "talk about the election of 2020." The My Pillow founder suggested that his Supreme Court lawsuit could still move forward, urging listeners to contact their states' attorneys general.
Regardless of Lindell's claims, more than 60 election challenge lawsuits have already failed in state and federal courts. Even judges appointed by Trump and other Republicans have rejected the allegations. Meanwhile, recounts and audits in states across the country have consistently reaffirmed the 2020 election results.
Former Attorney General William Barr, who was widely viewed as one of Trump's most loyal Cabinet members, said in December that there was "no evidence" of voter fraud that would change the election's outcome. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency at the Department of Homeland Security asserted last year that the 2020 election was the "most secure in American history." That federal agency was led by a Trump appointee at the time.
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2021-11-25 at 6:48 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sWhat they really want you to buy is their line of bullshit to keep you coming back to enrich their scamming asses.
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2021-11-25 at 4:52 PM UTC in Hippies
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2021-11-25 at 4:48 PM UTC in STICK IT, Damn It!This whole thing came about on your watch, Donald.
IT'S ALWAYS RUMP'S FAULT!
