[NationalReview] President-elect Joe Biden is set to tap former Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen for Treasury secretary in his administration, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday...
Democrats hope some members of the Senate’s Republican majority will vote to confirm Yellen, a less insane progressive choice than other names that were floated for the position, including Senator Elizabeth Warren [fwiw - if Senator Warren accepted a cabinet post, the vacancy would be filled by Gov Baker, a nominal Republican)
Yellen is unlikely to endorse wacko ideas (e.g., stop fracking, cancel all college debt) but is also unlikely to publically oppose them.
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[Reuters] U.S. President-elect Joe Biden will name former Secretary of State John Kerry as special climate envoy, his transition team said on Monday, a sign that Biden views diplomatic skills as vital to the job.
Kerry and his team of celeb greenies will have about the same carbon footprints as Italy.
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OK, so we're supposed to just roll over and accept as valid an election that nobody in this country would have certified had such a clownshow occurred in a third world shithole or corrupt former Soviet Republic?
How are we supposed to play the role of loyal opposition to a demented lying senile Chinese puppet whose people just stole an election with millions of obviously fraudulent absentee ballots?
Loyal to what -- China? Hunter Biden's Crack Fund?
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24 Hour Rule.
American Thinker has an analysis here, which has Ms Powell’s tweeted response:
NEW: Sidney Powell responds: “I understand today's press release. I will continue to represent #WeThePeople who had their votes for Trump and other Republicans stolen by massive fraud through Dominion and Smartmatic, and we will be filing suit soon.... (1/2)
And a “parlayed” response from Michael Flynn, Jr. on Parler explaining that she agrees with the Tump announcement and suggests this is as much about getting around limits on donations if there are two entities instead of just the Trump one.
Finally, Lin Wood, esq. is sanguine:
Sidney Powell @SidneyPowell1 & I are more alike than we are different.
We are fighting different legal battles for the same clients - We The People.
#6
Sydney and Guiliani are two hard headed prosecutors who really do not compromise each other on strategy and tactics. Clearly a divorce occured and they decided to move forward prosecuting election fraud separately.
They are now competing with each other on this Dim fraud hunt mission.
#7
I'm not sure a divorce occurred or if they were ever truly on the same team. My understanding is Sidney Powell was never on Trump's payroll but he referred to her as part of the team which could be taken literal or not.
I think a lot of what has been going on has been designed to move the Overton window so that more and more people are willing to accept the concept the election was stolen so that they won't knee-jerk reject whatever evidence she presents which is one reason they've taken their time despite the limited window of opportunity. This will also help in later efforts to clean up the voting system nationally.
I also think it could be seen as advantageous for Trump to separate from the momentous overturn of the election she's talking about so it doesn't look like a coup.
I hope she really has some real, convincing, proof.
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#8; yeah, she shot herself three times in the back of the head, just to make sure.
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It'd called arguing in the alternative. Common legal strategy. Think of it as something like "I wasn't there, I didn't do it, I'm sorry and it will never happen again."
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There may be a Long Game going on. Overturning a federal election is rather hard to do, particularly with the widespread collusion of 1000s or 100000s of TDS unindicted co-conspirators including the media. The loss of faith in the system by Trump supporters (about half of the electorate give or take) is a massive problem (or is it an opportunity?) for the immediate future. Even if Trump knows he will likely not succeed in his legal challenge, he is doing a service to his supporters and to his country by putting up a fight.
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Trump didn't exactly throw in the towel, he just acknowledged the transition person should speak with Biden but said he'd keep fighting.
At some point you have to acknowledge the chance that the courts will go against you and also calm fears your gonna stay on as a dictator. If he wins out any transition preparation with Biden can be ignored.
Former Vice President Joe Biden is reportedly set to announce this week that Tony Blinken, who supported the idea of "Russia collusion," would be his Secretary of State.
Bloomberg News reported Sunday evening:
President-elect Joe Biden intends to name his longtime adviser Antony Blinken as secretary of State, according to three people familiar with the matter, setting out to assemble his cabinet even before Donald Trump concedes defeat.
In addition, Jake Sullivan, formerly one of Hillary Clinton’s closest aides, is likely to be named Biden’s national security adviser, according to two people familiar with the matter. An announcement is expected Tuesday, the people said.
Blinken, who served as deputy secretary of state and deputy national security advisor under President Barack Obama, has also been a New York Times opinion writer and a "global affairs analyst" for CNN. In that capacity, he supported the "Russia collusion" hoax.
As Breitbart News reported in 2017, Blinken told CNN: "The president’s ongoing collusion with Russia’s plans is really striking, intentional or not." He said that Russia had sown doubt about American elections and institutions.
(Subsequently, an investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller found no evidence of any collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign.)
Blinken also apologized earlier this year to left-wing anti-Israel radical Linda Sarsour, regarded by many critics (even on the left) as an antisemite, after the Biden campaign tried to distance itself from her views.
He is also married to Evan Ryan, a former aide to then-First Lady Hillary Clinton. Ryan worked for Clinton at a time when Clinton’s chief of staff, Margaret Williams, acknowledged accepting a campaign donation from entrepreneur Johnny Chien Chuen Chung.
I thought Susan Rice was a more likely pick. Maybe DepSec for her.
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In 2017, Blinken co-founded WestExec Advisors, a "political strategy firm" which also helps clients expand market access in China "while safeguarding against trade tensions between the U.S. and China." (Think Air-America without airplanes). *Generally sourced from Wiki data.
Nice John Brennan -Deep State pick. Blinken will now be getting two USG checks. One reportable income, the other, not so much. China should be well pleased.
[Free Beacon] President-elect Joe Biden on Friday announced the selection of Louisa Terrell as his legislative affairs director. Like most of the people Biden has tapped for senior roles in his administration, Terrell formerly worked in lobbying shops for controversial corporations such as Facebook, Yahoo, and McKinsey & Company.
The decision is in keeping with former president Barack Obama's proud tradition of hiring corporate lobbyists—despite explicitly campaigning against the influence of such lobbyists in Washington. Terrell is merely the latest former lobbyist to earn a senior role in the Biden administration.
Biden's incoming chief of staff, Ron Klain, previously lobbied on behalf of U.S. Airways, AOL Time Warner, Fannie Mae, and ImClone, a pharmaceutical company whose CEO was convicted of fraud. His deputy chief of staff, Jen O'Malley Dillon, cofounded an "integrated strategy and marketing agency" that was recently hired to represent private equity firms. The incoming counselor to the president, Steve Ricchetti, previously lobbied for AT&T, Eli Lily, and the American Bankers Association.
[100percentfedup via Citizenfreepress] Yesterday, data scientist Sarah Eaglesfield tweeted about some interesting facts she uncovered while looking into Wayne County, Michigan’s voter data from the November 2020 election. Her data, so far, explores cluster votes in Michigan’s Wayne County, where hundreds of affidavits have been filed sharing eye-witness accounts of voter fraud and intimidation by paid election workers and officials and Democrat activists present at the TCF Center, where absentee ballots were processed.
Eaglesfield’s tweet reads:
In order — clusters in Wayne County, Michigan with the most votes cast in #Election2020 were:
1. A psychiatric hospital (@NedStaebler is that you?)
This comment directed at Ned Staebler is in reference to his viral, videotaped, unhinged rant directed at the Republican Wayne Co. Board of Canvassers who refused to certify the county’s election last week.
That’s in Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s circuit...
[JustTheNews] Workers are paid $30 an hour courtesy of the Trump campaign.
Election workers in Wisconsin's two largest counties have begun the process of recounting ballots cast there following a request from President Trump's reelection campaign, which has paid a sizable sum to fund the effort in a state in which Trump trails Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...Candidate for president in 2020. Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.... by just over 20,000 votes.
The counties of Milwaukee and Dane are the only two localities in the state in which the Trump campaign has requested a ballot recount. Both counties lean heavily liberal.
The Trump campaign was required to pay a $3 million fee to cover the costs of the recount, which includes $30/hour wages to ballot workers, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported on Friday.
The Trump campaign requested a variety of stipulations as part of its recount request, including the elimination of mail-in ballots from voters who claimed to be "indefinitely confined." Those voters were not bound by the state's mail-in voter ID law.
Milwaukee officials are reportedly shooting for a conclusion of the recount on Wednesday, according to the Journal Sentinel, while Dane County officials were not sure of when their recount would be done.
#1
this should have included not counting mail in ballots where the ballot was not specifically requested in writing and ballots where the signature didn't match the request for a ballot
don't know if it did
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That’s in Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s circuit...
[WashingtonPost] Michigan’s attorney general is exploring whether officials there risk committing crimes if they bend to President Trump’s wishes in seeking to block the certification of Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...Candidate for president in 2020. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier... ’s victory in their state, according to two people familiar with the review.
The move by Dana Nessel, a Democrat, reflected a growing sense of unease among many in her party and some Republicans that the president was continuing his unprecedented efforts to reach personally into the state’s electoral process as he seeks to prevent Michigan from formally declaring a winner there.
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according to people familiar with the deliberations who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter.
Translation: We pulled this out of our ass.
In the wake of Biden being declared president-elect on Nov. 7,
We also pulled this out from even deeper..
The Michigan secretary of state’s office, which oversees elections, said Thursday that there is no legal mechanism for Palmer and Hartmann to do so.
Someone should tell the good Secretary that agreements made under duress, where your children are being directly threatened, are not binding.
[DAILYWIRE] Monica Palmer, one of the two GOP members of the Wayne County Board Of Canvassers, said that her home address was published online after she first voted against certifying the vote total in Wayne County.Palmer appeared on Fox News’ "The Ingraham Angle" on Thursday night alongside her fellow Republican board member William Hartman. Palmer told host Laura Ingraham that a Michigan businessman, Ned Staebler, published Palmer’s home address online and encouraged people to harass her at her house because of her vote.
"He’s used his social media platform to repeatedly dox me, post my phone number, my home address, my email address, and encouraged people to stop by my house and share their anger with me," Palmer said.
Staebler participated in a Zoom session for community input after Palmer and Hartman voted against certifying the election results. During the meeting, Staebler said that the GOP members carried the "stink of racism" for their votes and made other disparaging comments. The GOP members later voted to certify the election results, allegedly after striking an agreement with the Democratic members to audit the precincts in Wayne County.
"I’m not gonna try to change your mind, I just wanna let you know, the Trump stink, the stain of racism, that you, William Hartmann and Monica Palmer, have just covered yourselves in, is gonna follow you throughout history," Staebler said during the Zoom meeting, according to The Daily Wire. "Your grandchildren are gonna think of you as Bull Connor or George Wallace."
"But just know, when you try to sleep tonight, that millions of people around the world now on Twitter know the name Monica Palmer and William Hartmann as two people completely racist and without an understanding of what integrity means or a shred of human decency," he said. "The law isn’t on your side, history won’t be on your side, your conscience will not be on your side, and Lord knows, when you go to meet your maker, your soul is going to be very, very warm."
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Get used to it. The communist/Marxist party will be attacking everyone shortly for their support of Trump. I suspect Congress will investigate a large number of Trumps staff to send a signal to never cross them again and politics as usual will be the only way in DC...
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[Free Beacon] President-elect Joe Biden on Friday announced the selection of Louisa Terrell as his legislative affairs director. Like most of the people Biden has tapped for senior roles in his administration, Terrell formerly worked in lobbying shops for controversial corporations such as Facebook, Yahoo, and McKinsey & Company.
...Candidate for president in 2020. 
...Candidate for president in 2020. 
