Memories 2

What has the Trump virus taken from you?

Failure

We could have won, but our "wartime" president surrendered. #TrumpVirus

PANDEMIC & SCHOOLS

AND SOON, YOU'LL BE PROSECUTED!

ROGER STONE:

FACEBOOK JUST WOKE UP???

Facebook Removes Roger Stone for Ties to Fake Accounts

The social network said the fake accounts were active around the 2016 presidential election.

Facebook on Wednesday said it was removing the personal accounts of Roger J. Stone Jr., President Trump’s friend and ally, because they had ties to numerous fake accounts that were active around the 2016 presidential election.

The company made the announcement as part of its monthly report on removing disinformation. Mr. Stone’s personal accounts on Facebook and Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, were entwined with a U.S.-based network of accounts that had links to the Proud Boys, a group that promotes white supremacy, the company said. The social network banned the Proud Boys group in 2018.

“We first started looking into this network as part of our investigation into the Proud Boys’ attempt to return to Facebook after we had designated and banned them from the platform,” Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook’s head of cybersecurity policy, wrote in a company blog post announcing Facebook’s takedown. “Our investigation linked this network to Roger Stone and his associates.”

Mr. Stone, 67, is set to go to prison this month. In November, a jury convicted him on seven felonies, including lying to federal investigators, tampering with a witness and impeding a congressional inquiry. The charges were brought by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, whose investigators scrutinized Mr. Stone’s attempts during the 2016 presidential election to communicate with WikiLeaks about the release of Democratic emails that had been stolen by Russian operatives.

In a statement, Mr. Stone denied overseeing fake accounts on Facebook or Instagram. “This extraordinary active censorship for which Facebook and Instagram give entirely fabricated reasons,” he said, “is part of a larger effort to censor supporters of the president, Republicans and conservatives on social media platforms. The claim that I have utilized or control unauthorized or fake accounts on any platform is categorically and provably false.”

This is not the first time that Mr. Stone has been kicked off a major social media platform. In October 2017, Mr. Stone was suspended from Twitter after insulting several CNN news anchors and contributors. In July 2019, the federal judge overseeing the case brought by Mr. Mueller ordered Mr. Stone off major social media platforms. The judge said Mr. Stone had violated a gag order by using them to attack the special counsel’s investigation and officials tied to it.

Mr. Stone’s accounts were part of the 54 Facebook accounts, 50 pages and four Instagram accounts that Facebook said were associated with the Proud Boys network. The network, the company said, was most active in 2016 and 2017, during the run-up to the United States presidential election and immediately after. A few accounts were still active into 2020, posting primarily about Mr. Stone’s court case and judgment according to Graphika, a company that specializes in analyzing social media, which released a report about Facebook’s Wednesday takedown.

Many of the accounts that Facebook removed used fake personas, stole pictures of people around the internet and published posts promoting Mr. Stone, according to Graphika’s analysis. The accounts publicized his books in 2016, and pushed for his legal defenses in 2019 and appeals for a pardon in 2020.

The accounts also posted hostile criticism of Hillary Clinton, especially in the lead-up to the 2016 election, Graphika said, and engaged in coordinated harassment against a judge who had temporarily blocked Mr. Trump’s executive order barring citizens of seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States.

Facebook said it had identified the full scope of the network after hundreds of pages of search warrants and affidavits were released in response to a lawsuit filed by The New York Times and other news media organizations.

The social network said it also took down 35 Facebook accounts, 14 pages, one group and 38 Instagram accounts involved in a domestic disinformation campaign in Brazil, which were linked to “some of the employees of the offices” of President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil and two of his sons, Congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro and Senator Flávio Bolsonaro. It was not clear whether Brazil’s president had any direct role in those accounts.

“This shows that coordinated inauthentic behavior can turn up in many places, even the offices of high-profile politicians,” said Ben Nimmo, director of investigations at Graphika. “It also shows that there’s a whole community out there hunting for this kind of operation. It’s a brain race between the influence operations and the people who hunt them, and every takedown teaches us a little more.”

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CHINA HAD A PROBLEM WITH TERRORISM & SOLVED IT!

CHINA BUILT FACTORIES & PUT PEOPLE TO WORK....much as we did in NORTHERN IRELAND....

PUT PEOPLE TO WORK & GIVE THEM JOBS TO STOP TERRORISM.

BOMBS CREATE MORE TERRORISTS!

FAILED SOCIETIES NEED TO BE REBUILT.

Our Revolution

 

"Drone attacks in Somalia take place in nighttime. They don't kill only terrorists, but civilians as well, and families sleeping together." - Ilhan Omar #StopEndlessWars

[FB-Employee-Only] FAM is developing this carousel unit now.

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  Ilhan Omar Demands Pentagon Acknowledge, Compensate US Drone Strike Victims 'Illegally Killed' in Somalia

  Congresswoman's call, says one rights advocate, "is an important acknowledgment that civilians unlawfully harmed have a right to redress."
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SOMEONE TELL DAFFY DON HOW TO WEAR A FACE MASK! THAT'S HOW STUPID HE IS! 

Questions Arose After Melania’s Unemployed Sister Reportedly Received Citizenship While Donald Trump Pressed “Public Charge” Rule

FIRST AMERICAN pRESIDENT WHO DOESN'T SPEAK ENGLISH!

Andrew Simpson

 shared a link.

Of course she won't be a "burden," she's white, right?

POLITICALTRIBUNE.ORG

Questions Arose After Melania's Unemployed Sister Reportedly Received Citizenship While Donald Trump Pressed "Public Charge" Rule

The mainstream media should shine a light on this hypocrisy.

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THIS & THAT................

John P Epstein

First Trump ignored it. Then he said:

1) “it will go away in April with the heat”

2) the risk is low and the U.S. will have a “very good ending” regarding the threat of COVID

3) it’s under control and nothing to worry about

4) “only 15 people have it. Within a few days it will be down to zero. We’ve done a pretty good job”

5) “it will disappear like a miracle”

6) “Coronavirus is the Democrats new hoax”

7) “anybody who wants to test can get it. The tests are perfect.”

8) “I like the numbers being where they are. I don’t need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn’t our fault.”

9) “it’s no different from the common flu”

10) “the risk is very very low”

11) “take hydroxychloroquine. Let’s see what happens.” (some Americans die from following this advice)

12) “we are halting all funding for the WHO”

13) “it’s time to LIBERATE Michigan, Minnesota and Virginia”

14) it’s Obama and Biden’s fault we weren’t prepared

15) “disinfectants (like bleach) knock it out in a minute. We can do something like that by injection”

16) “the U.S. is the world leader in responding to Coronavirus. We’re getting great marks”

17) “we have prevailed against coronavirus”

18) “I was earlier than anyone else in responding to coronavirus”

19) I’ve done my job well and responded early”

20). “I’m not responsible”

TomDispatch

 

7 hrs

At Newsweek, Timothy Wirth and Tom Rogers offer a genuinely creepy scenario for how Trump could lose the election and still possibly make himself president. No one can doubt that he could be ready to do anything rather than lose in November. Anyway, check this out. Tom

"It is increasingly looking as if Joe Biden can beat President Donald Trump in November. The president seems more and more out of step with the national mood, from his handling of the pandemic to his response to racially biased policing, not to mention a wide array of other issues. Even in key swing states, Trump is losing ground that will be difficult for him to make up.

"For Trump, there are two broad pathways to maintaining power. First, we can already see very clearly a strategy designed to suppress voter turnout with the purging of registration rolls of large numbers of mostly urban voters; efforts to suppress mail-in ballots, which are more necessary than ever, given COVID-19; a re-election apparatus that is training 50,000 poll watchers for the purpose of challenging citizens' right to vote on Election Day; and significant efforts to make in-person voting in urban areas as cumbersome as possible in order to have long lines that discourage people from exercising their voting rights.

"The second pathway to subverting the election is even more ominous—but we must be cognizant of it because Trump is already laying the groundwork for how he can lose the popular vote, and even lose in the key swing states necessary for an Electoral College victory, but still remain president.

"This spring, HBO aired The Plot Against America, based on the Philip Roth novel of how an authoritarian president could grab control of the United States government using emergency powers that no one could foresee. Recent press reports have revealed the compilation by the Brennan Center at New York University of an extensive list of presidential emergency powers that might be inappropriately invoked in a national security crisis. Attorney General William Barr, known for his extremist view of the expanse of presidential power, is widely believed to be developing a Justice Department opinion arguing that the president can exercise emergency powers in certain national security situations, while stating that the courts, being extremely reluctant to intervene in the sphere of a national security emergency, would allow the president to proceed unchecked.

"Something like the following scenario is not just possible but increasingly probable because it is clear Trump will do anything to avoid the moniker he hates more than any other: "loser."

"Trump actually tweeted on June 22: "Rigged 2020 election: millions of mail-in ballots will be printed by foreign countries, and others. It will be the scandal of our times!" With this, Trump has begun to lay the groundwork for the step-by-step process by which he holds on to the presidency after he has clearly lost the election:

Biden wins the popular vote, and carries the key swing states of Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania by decent but not overwhelming margins.

Trump immediately declares that the voting was rigged, that there was mail-in ballot fraud and that the Chinese were behind a plan to provide fraudulent mail-in ballots and other "election hacking" throughout the four key swing states that gave Biden his victory.

Having railed against the Chinese throughout the campaign, calling Biden "soft on China," Trump delivers his narrative claiming the Chinese have interfered in the U.S. election.

Trump indicates this is a major national security issue, and he invokes emergency powers, directing the Justice Department to investigate the alleged activity in the swing states. The legal justification for the presidential powers he invokes has already been developed and issued by Barr.

The investigation is intended to tick down the clock toward December 14, the deadline when each state's Electoral College electors must be appointed. This is the very issue that the Supreme Court harped on in Bush v. Gore in ruling that the election process had to be brought to a close, thus forbidding the further counting of Florida ballots.

All four swing states have Republican control of both their upper and lower houses of their state legislatures. Those state legislatures refuse to allow any Electoral College slate to be certified until the "national security" investigation is complete.

The Democrats will have begun a legal action to certify the results in those four states, and the appointment of the Biden slate of electors, arguing that Trump has manufactured a national security emergency in order to create the ensuing chaos.

The issue goes up to the Supreme Court, which unlike the 2000 election does not decide the election in favor of the Republicans. However, it indicates again that the December 14 Electoral College deadline must be met; that the president's national security powers legally authorize him to investigate potential foreign country intrusion into the national election; and if no Electoral College slate can be certified by any state by December 14, the Electoral College must meet anyway and cast its votes.

The Electoral College meets, and without the electors from those four states being represented, neither Biden nor Trump has sufficient votes to get an Electoral College majority.

The election is thrown into the House of Representatives, pursuant to the Constitution. Under the relevant constitutional process, the vote in the House is by state delegation, where each delegation casts one vote, which is determined by the majority of the representatives in that state.

Currently, there are 26 states that have a majority Republican House delegation. 23 states have a majority Democratic delegation. There is one state, Pennsylvania, that has an evenly split delegation. Even if the Democrats were to pick up seats in Pennsylvania and hold all their 2018 House gains, the Republicans would have a 26 to 24 delegation majority.

This vote would enable Trump to retain the presidency.

"We cannot let ourselves believe that this is a far-fetched scenario. We have just seen Trump threaten to invoke emergency powers under the Insurrection Act of 1807 to call up the U.S. military against domestic protesters. The remarkable apology by Joint Chiefs Chairman General Mark Milley, stating that it was wrong to create a perception that the military would get directly involved in a domestic political protest and intervene against American civilians, underscores the corrupt use of executive powers Trump is willing to employ. As Fareed Zakaria recently said in summing up the lessons of former national security adviser John Bolton's new book: "Donald Trump will pay any price, make any deal, bend any rule, to assure his own survival and success."

"So what do we do as citizens to face the impending reality of The Plot Against America? We must "out" this scenario—and do so loudly and consistently. We have an imperative to build a "people's firewall" that reaches deeply across the country and reflects public revulsion at the potential for Trump to undermine our entire democratic system of governance.

"Nancy Pelosi, the House speaker, should immediately ask the Judiciary, Commerce, Armed Services and Intelligence Committees to hold hearings on how steps can be taken to safeguard against this scenario, especially how to confront any invocation of emergency powers by the president.

"There needs to be an outpouring at all levels of society that this will not be tolerated—from government officials and lawmakers at all levels; to civic associations and civil rights groups; to business groups and trade associations, who have to recognize the economic chaos that would result from this kind of coup; to lawyers, academics and student groups practiced in resisting government policies; and, of course, to the editorial voices of the press, both local and national.

"The recent resistance of our military establishment is an encouraging sign and necessary component of the "people's firewall." The president has to know there will be overwhelming resistance to any post-election chaos to undermine our constitutional order. He must know that the "people's firewall" will not yield to lawlessness. He has to be confronted with the reality that The Plot Against America must remain a work of fiction."

https://www.newsweek.com/how-trump-could-lose-election-still-remain-president-opinion-1513975

NEWSWEEK.COM

How Trump could lose the election—and still remain president | Opinion

It's possible only a "people's firewall" can prevent President Donald Trump from bringing "Th