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October 24, 2024

"I need the kind of generals Hitler had"

First of all that ought to have every responsible media organization denouncing this megalomaniac as unfit for any elected office.

But they won't. Once again the sane-washing will declare this is just trump being trump, lol. Worse, they will and are framing it as 'Harris attacking Trump', rather than, as they did with Biden, Trump being unfit to serve.

But I'm still a bit confused. Does the shithead even know that Hitler's generals got their asses roundly kicked in Russia, destroying Hitlers war machine, and paving the way for the invasion of Italy and France and the end of Hitler and his generals?

October 20, 2024

18 U.S. Code § 597 A felony.

Expenditures to influence voting

Whoever makes or offers to make an expenditure to any person, either to vote or withhold his vote, or to vote for or against any candidate; and

Whoever solicits, accepts, or receives any such expenditure in consideration of his vote or the withholding of his vote—

Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if the violation was willful, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/597

October 17, 2024

October 15, 2024 Heather Cox Richardson

After Trump’s bizarre performance last night in Oaks, Pennsylvania, when he stopped taking questions and just swayed to his self-curated playlist for 39 minutes, his campaign this morning canceled a scheduled interview with CNBC’s Squawk Box, according to co-host of the show Joe Kernen. The campaign did not, though, cancel a scheduled live interview today with Bloomberg News and the Economic Club of Chicago. That interview echoed last night’s train wreck.

Trump showed up almost an hour late to the event with moderator John Micklethwait, editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News. When he arrived, things went downhill fast. Micklethwait asked real questions about Trump’s approach to the economy, but the former president answered with aimless rants and campaign slogans that Micklethwait corrected, repeatedly redirecting Trump back to his actual questions. Trump quickly grew angry and combative.

When Micklethwait corrected Trump’s misunderstanding of the way tariffs work, Trump replied in front of a room full of people who understand the economy: “It must be hard for you to, you know, spend 25 years talking about tariffs as being negative and then have somebody explain to you that you're totally wrong.” Referring to analysis that his plans would explode the national debt, including analysis by the Wall Street Journal—hardly a left-wing outlet, as Mickelthwait pointed out—Trump replied: “What does the Wall Street Journal know? They’ve been wrong about everything. So have you, by the way….. You’ve been wrong about everything…. You’ve been wrong all your life on this stuff.”

Much more here: https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/october-15-2024

October 6, 2024

True Crimes: the misdeeds of TCF. Part 4, Pence

E. The Defendant Attempted to Persuade Pence to Reject Votes Cast by Duly Appointed Electors and Choose the Defendant's Fraudulent Ones

As the defendant's various attempts to target the states failed, and the January 6 congressional certification approached, the defendant and co-conspirators turned their attention to Pence, who as President of the Senate presided over the certification proceeding.

In service of a new plan—to enlist Pence to use his role to fraudulently alter the election results at the January 6 certification proceeding — the defendant and his co-conspirators again used deceit. They lied to Pence, telling him that there was substantial election fraud and concealing their orchestration of the plan to manufacture fraudulent elector slates, as well as their intention to use the fake slates to attempt to obstruct the congressional certification. And they lied to the public, falsely claiming that Pence had the authority during the certification proceeding to reject electoral votes, send them back to the states, or overturn the election-and that Pence agreed he had these boundless powers.

With these lies, the defendant created the tinderbox that he purposely ignited on January 6. The defendant first publicly turned his sights toward January 6 in the early morning hours of December 19. At 1:42 a.m., the defendant posted on Twitter a copy of a report falsely alleging* fraud and wrote, "Statistically impossible to have lost the 2020 Election. Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!"319

When CC5 learned about the Tweet, he sent a link about it to another of the Wisconsin attorneys who had met with the defendant in the Oval Office on December 16 and wrote, “Wow. Based on 3 days ago, I think we have unique understanding of this.”320 Later on December 19, the defendant called Pence and told him of plans for a rally on January 6 and said that he thought it would be a “big day” and good to have lots of their supporters in town.321

The defendant and his co-conspirators recognized that Pence, by virtue of his ministerial role presiding over the January 6
congressional certification, would need to be a key part of their plan to obstruct the certification proceeding. On December 23, in a
memorandum drafted with CC5 assistance, CC2 outlined a plan for Pence to “gavel" in the defendant as the winner ofthe election based on the false claim that "7 states have transmitted dual slates of electors to the President ofthe Senate," and proposed that Pence announce that “because of the ongoing disputes in the 7 States, there are no electors that can be deemed validly appointed in those States." CC2 emphasized concealment, writing that “the main thing here” was that Pence act without “asking for permission—either from a vote of the Joint Session or from the Court.”323

https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/documenttools/73357920e3c8d739/8fc8bfd0-full.pdf
October 4, 2024

True Crimes: the misdeeds of TCF. Part 3, Fraudulent elector schemes

Using the fake electors to create a certification crisis:


At the same time that the defendant's fraudulent electors were preparing to gather and cast
fraudulent votes, the defendant's co-conspirators began planning how to use the fraudulent votes
to overturn the election results at the January 6 certification . On December 13, CC5 sent
CC1 a memorandum that envisioned a scenario in which Pence would use the fraudulent slates
as a pretext to claim that there were dueling slates of electors from the targeted states and negotiate
a solution to defeat Biden.312 On the same day, the defendant resumed almost daily direct contact
with P1 who maintained a podcast that disseminated the defendant's false fraud claims.³
On December 14, P1 podcast focused on spreading lies about the defendant's fraudulent
electors—including the false claim that their votes were merely a contingency in the event the
defendant won legal challenges in the targeted states.³314

Page 58: https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/documenttools/73357920e3c8d739/8fc8bfd0-full.pdf
October 3, 2024

True Crimes: the misdeeds of TCF. Part 2, Fraudulent elector schemes[


In practice, the fraudulent elector plan played out somewhat differently in each targeted
state. In general, the co-conspirators deceived the defendant's elector nominees in the same way
that the defendant and CC2 deceived P39 by falsely claiming that their electoral votes
would be used only if ongoing litigation were resolved in the defendant's favor.282 A selectfew
ofthe defendant's agents and elector nominees, however, had insight into the ultimate plan to use
the fraudulent elector certificates to disrupt the congressional certification on January 6.283 In
several states, the defendant, his co-conspirators, and agents were unable to convince all ofthe
defendant's elector nominees to participate.2284 P57 for instance, a former U.S.
Representative and U.S. Attorney and one ofthe defendant's elector nominees in Pennsylvania
who opted out ofthe plan, told the state party vice chair trying to organize the defendant's electors
that he would not participate because the plan did not follow the proper process and was illegal.”
When electors like P57 declined, the conspirators and agents had to recruit substitutes willing
to go along with the plan.² Other electors who participated based on the conspirators' false
assurances that their votes were only a contingency were later surprised to learn that they were
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used on January 6— and would not have agreed to participate if the conspirators had been truthful
about their plan.2

Pages 53-56 the indictment https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/documenttools/73357920e3c8d739/8fc8bfd0-full.pdf
October 3, 2024

True Crimes: the misdeeds of TCF. Part 1, filing fraudulent affidavit.


In the post-election period, the defendant also made false claims in court about fraud in
Georgia-unsuccessfully. For example, in Trump v. Kemp, a federal lawsuit in which the
defendant sued Georgia's Governor and Secretary of State, the defendant signed a verification of
fraud allegations that he and his attorney on the case, CC2 knew wasinaccurate.
spoke with the defendant and CC2 in late December regarding the proposed verification. First,
he told CC2 that they could not have the
P9
and another private attorney,
P31
defendant sign it because they could not verify any ofthe facts.¹127 And P9 told the
defendant that any lawyer that signed the complaint that the verification supported would get
disbarred.128 CC2 acknowledged this problem in an email on December 31 to P32
lead counsel for the defendant as candidate in Trump v. Kemp, and another private attorney, writing
that in the time since the defendant signed a previous verification in the case, he “had been made
aware that some ofthe allegations (and evidence proffered by the experts) has been inaccurate"
and that signing a new affirmation“with that knowledge (and incorporation by reference) would
not be accurate."129 Nonetheless, on December 31 , the defendant signed the verification, and
CC2 caused it to be filed

Page 27, the indictment https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/documenttools/73357920e3c8d739/8fc8bfd0-full.pdf
September 20, 2024

Obviously it is people from the future.

what follows is nonsense

The recent attempts to assassinate the Clown Nazi in Chief (CNIC) are best explained as ‘steered’ interactions between deranged people in our present timeline and desperate remnants of human civilization in our most likely future timeline attempting to avert the disaster that they are living.

Physical time travel is lethal for living beings, but what can be thought of as ‘mental’ time travel is feasible, if very energy intensive. Manipulating people susceptible to delusional behavior is what our descendants are capable of doing.

The bad news here is that civilization collapses. The good news is that the collapse isn’t total and they are working on a fix.

If all else fails, we are building terminator class robots right now in military labs around the world. They will be the next target.

September 12, 2024

People are eating dogs and cats might just be Convicted Felon's Dukakis in a Tank moment.

"In Springfield, they are eating the dogs. The people that came in, they are eating the cats. They’re eating – they are eating the pets of the people that live there."

Any suggestion to let up on this should be ignored with prejudice.

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