Calm, History, Opportunity

It is not only history that has been decided and which will be revealed.

We will also have the same freedom citizens of the world, to varying degrees, have had from millennia past.
We read about those choices in text books, bibles, and family histories.

As the counting goes on, and the result is announced, the one ballot that will also count is the vote every individual will cast.
Each of us will choose the role we will play in that history.

It occurs to me that, if the worst comes to pass, what came to me four years ago will still apply, at least in my life.

– As Mr. Trump became President-Elect –

Trump Love, Trump Addicts, Trump Who? Bumper Numbers, Desperation

TikTok’s @momwino98 watches Mr. Trump with us.

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How Investigators Found Academic Who Faked Hunter Biden Documents

found online by Burr

 

Christopher Balding – Photo and Biography now deleted from Fulbright University site     [Cached Image]

Note from Burr: Poor Giuliani, exposed in so many ways

From NBC News:

One month before a purported leak of files from Hunter Biden’s laptop, a fake “intelligence” document about him went viral on the right-wing internet, asserting an elaborate conspiracy theory involving former Vice President Joe Biden’s son and business in China.

The document, a 64-page composition that was later disseminated by close associates of President Donald Trump, appears to be the work of a fake “intelligence firm” called Typhoon Investigations, according to researchers and public documents.

The author of the document, a self-identified Swiss security analyst named Martin Aspen, is a fabricated identity, according to analysis by disinformation researchers, who also concluded that Aspen’s profile picture was created with an artificial intelligence face generator. The intelligence firm that Aspen lists as his previous employer said that no one by that name had ever worked for the company and that no one by that name lives in Switzerland, according to public records and social media searches.

One of the original posters of the document, a blogger and professor named Christopher Balding, took credit for writing parts of it when asked about it and said Aspen does not exist.

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America’s Obsession with Socialism – How It Began

found online by Raymond

 

Eugene V. Debs, five time candidate of the Socialist Party of America, 1900‑1920     [Image from Wikipedia]

From Heather Cox Richardson in Letters from an American:

The same people who had bitterly and publicly complained about Black Americans participating in society as equal to whites began to argue that their problem with Black voting was not about race, but rather about class. They said that they objected to poor voters being able to elect leaders who promised to deliver services or public improvements, like schools and roads, that could be paid for only by taxes, levied on property holders.

In the South of the post-Civil War years, almost all property holders were white. They argued that Black voting amounted to a redistribution of wealth from hardworking white men to poor Black people. It was, they insisted, “socialism,” or, after workers in Paris created a Commune in 1871, “communism.”

This is the origin of the American obsession with “socialism,” more than 40 years before Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution.

Since that time, Americans have cried “socialism” whenever ordinary Americans try to use the government to level the economic playing field by calling for business regulation—which will cost tax dollars by requiring bureaucrats—or for schools and roads, or by asking for a basic social safety net. But the public funding of roads and education and health care is not the same thing as government taking over the means of production. Rather it is an attempt to prevent a small oligarchy from using the government to gather power to themselves, cutting off the access of ordinary Americans to resources, a chance to rise, and, ultimately, to equality before the law.

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Let Me Get This Straight – Not Enough Followers Same as Censorship

found on Twitter by Burr

 

Could it be the more you tweet, the less people like you?

Almost as weird as claiming fraud because voters might choose the other candidate.

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Elderly Left in Freezing Cold at Trump Rally

Emergency news coverage noticed by Burr

 
Too dangerous for obvious metaphors

From the Omaha World-Herald:

Hundreds of people waited hours in the cold for buses after Trump rally at Eppley

Hundreds of people who attended President Donald Trump’s Eppley Airfield rally Tuesday evening in Omaha spent up to three hours in freezing temperatures waiting for buses to take them back to their cars.

Several people who were waiting required medical attention, based on reporting at the scene and local emergency scanner traffic. Douglas County dispatchers and Airport Authority Police said they had no immediate tally.

The president, who spoke for nearly an hour, wrapped up shortly before 9 p.m. Some people in his audience waited until after midnight for campaign buses to take them to their cars, which were parked miles away.

Walking out of the rally, The World-Herald saw two people receive help from Omaha police — an elderly woman who was warming up in the back of a police cruiser and a boy to whom an officer lent a blanket.

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Trump Offered Post-Election Employment Consideration

found online by Burr