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.
Author: Burr Deming
Trump Love, Trump Addicts, Trump Who? Bumper Numbers, Desperation
TikTok’s @momwino98 watches Mr. Trump with us.
- The Propaganda Professor explores Cult 45 and why, despite the repulsiveness, such a large minority of people love Trump. It’s insightful and lacks the sort of syrupy attempt at empathy that seems endemic to so much similar analysis.
- Iron Knee at Political Irony provides aid and comfort to those who have the most to lose if Biden wins: Trump addicts of America, via SNL video. It’s funny and insightful. The 2½ minute investment is worth it.
- Georgia Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler insists there is no issue on which she has ever disagreed with Donald Trump. So‑o‑o‑o, someone asks about the famous Access Hollywood tape, the one where he brags about kissing unwilling women and boasts that he can “grab them by the p‑‑‑y.” Gosh, says the innocent Senator, she is unfamiliar with any of that. So, naturally, Ant Farmer’s Almanac comes up with the perfect headline.
- Sarah Cooper reenacts the Hollywood Access tape with Helen Mirren. She shows us how to Billy Bush.
- In Nan’s Notebook, she captures a terrific bumper sticker composed of 9 numerical digits. I wonder if anyone has that Social Security number.
- As we approach Tuesday, Max’s Dad observes the increasingly strange, frenetic gyrations of those whose surname is Trump, and concludes that desperation is a helluva drug.
- The Hunter Biden scandal has been discredited. It turns out to have been made up by a blogger working at the Fulbright College Vietnam along with a fake intelligence firm. Still, News Corpse reports that Donald Trump is complaining bitterly that Twitter is not allowing the smear by its most prominent twit.
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How Investigators Found Academic Who Faked Hunter Biden Documents
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.
America’s Obsession with Socialism – How It Began
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.
Let Me Get This Straight – Not Enough Followers Same as Censorship
Every morning I wake up and my Twitter following is less than the day before.
I'm not the only person this is happening to, but as I'm running for office it is disheartening.
Give this a retweet so those who've been unfollowed can follow again!
We must defeat this censorship!
— Lauren Boebert for Congress (R-CO3) (@laurenboebert) October 29, 2020
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.
Texas Attorney General Demands Freedom from Masks While Voting
Cato’s Julian Sanchez has shortest ideal answer
I hear they make you wear pants too. https://t.co/gTRpzCw3FE
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) October 28, 2020
IL Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike Breaks Down Over COVID Death Totals
Don’t Worry About Big Rally and COVID. Pence Has Best Doctors.
Elderly Left in Freezing Cold at Trump Rally
Too dangerous for obvious metaphors
Thousands of people left out in the cold and stranded in #Omaha, #Nebraska after a #Trump rally. I’m told the shuttles aren’t operating & there aren’t enough busses. Police didn’t seem to know what to do. Some walked. I saw at least one woman getting medical attention. pic.twitter.com/oIkmixaZt0
— Jeff Paul (@Jeff_Paul) October 28, 2020
One officer advising 8 to 9 elderly people who are struggling. Seperate officer advising they have located an elderly party who is frozen cold unable to move with an altered mental status.
— Omaha Scanner (@omaha_scanner) October 28, 2020
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.
— Medusa (@MedusaSeesYou) October 28, 2020
Trump Offered Post-Election Employment Consideration
Asked if he’s seen the #Borat2 footage and if he’s worried about security breaches, @POTUS replies: “I don’t know what happened. But years ago, you know, he (@SachaBaronCohen) tried to scam me and I was the only one who said no way. That’s a phony guy and I don’t find him funny."
— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) October 24, 2020
Donald—I appreciate the free publicity for Borat! I admit, I don’t find you funny either. But yet the whole world laughs at you.
I’m always looking for people to play racist buffoons, and you’ll need a job after Jan. 20. Let’s talk!https://t.co/itWnhJ8TQF
— Sacha Baron Cohen (@SachaBaronCohen) October 24, 2020