UPDATE: Donald Trump Takes Office as the 47th US President

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They done got Mush Mouth out the junkyard. Ain’t this some shit?

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Yep, this tells me everything I need to know. I know the people are Macon Georgia probably looking at Trump like …..

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How Trump “Won”—A Warning​


By Greg Palast
[Atlanta, Sunday, November 3.]
No, I don’t have a crystal ball. But I do have 25 years’ experience investigating voting trickery. And what I see here in Georgia is ugly. What I’ve seen in Arizona, Texas, Michigan and Wisconsin is uglier.

So, I’m warning right now: unless action is taken, and now, by the US Department of Justice to protect the vote, I don’t see how Vice-President Kamala Harris can win.

Why? Join me in going back to the future.
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Members of a Georgia MAGA militia in front of the state capitol, Atlanta. All photos by Zach D. Roberts for the Palast Investigative Fund. (2020) Re-print permitted with attribution
The day is November 6: This coming Wednesday. A group of MAGA fanatics called True the Vote has, according to an NAACP estimate, challenged the ballots of over 300,000 Georgians—not surprisingly, mostly voters of color. (We’re not guessing: the Palast Investigations Team contacted 800 of these Georgians.)

Trump has been promoting, and raising millions for, True the Vote, which announced its aim of challenging 2 MILLION through Election Day. What’s particularly dangerous is that True the Vote’s 40,000 vigilante volunteers will be blocking the count of ballots on Election Day itself and the days after. Hundreds of thousands of voters who mail in their ballots have no idea their votes are about to be thrown into the electoral dumpster.

On November 8: I expect Georgia’s MAGA-controlled county elections boards to remove one in five of those challenged. In 2020, Trump asked Georgia officials to “find” 11,780 votes. Now they will “find” 60,000 voters to remove—enough for Trump to “win” the State of Georgia.

November 9: The NAACP files suit to overturn the vigilante challenges because they were submitted too close to an election (and after). But the Supreme Court’s shock ruling last week allowing new purges of voter rolls in Virginia effectively nullifies the National Voter Registration Act which was supposed to block these last-minute sneak attacks on voter rolls.

November 12: Arizona disqualifies 30,000 “provisional” ballots, overwhelmingly cast in Hispanic precincts, tipping the race to Trump. (According to the federal Elections Assistance Commission, a breathtaking 2.7 million provisional ballots were rejected in 2020. Who gets shunted to these provisional “placebo” ballots? If you’re Black, Asian-American or Hispanic, the chance you’ll be shunted to a “provisional” ballot is 300% higher than if you’re a white voter.)

December 11: This is the final day under the Constitution –– and new law written by GOP Senate majority leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) –– for each state governor to submit the names of the winning Electors. Get ready for this to happen: Michigan again disqualifies tens of thousands of ballots. (Note: Michigan disqualified 75,000 ballots in Detroit in 2016 as “spoiled,” i.e. unreadable, because scanners simply broke down.) Another “Brooks Brothers riot” organized, as in 2000, by Roger Stone, now a chieftain of the Proud Boy, creates mayhem in the Wayne County (Detroit) elections office. That stops the count in Michigan. As a result, Michigan can’t submit its slate of electors by the absolute “certification” deadline of December 11, and the state, though won by Harris, loses all its Electoral votes.

December 17: In Nevada’s capital, Carson City, there is mayhem surrounding the State House. The Three-Percenters pick up the war cry, “Give us Trump or we light this whole sh*t on fire.” (We filmed Trump crony Ali Alexander, with Alex Jones, saying exactly those words in front of Georgia’s Governor’s Mansion) after the last election.
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Two supporters of the new Confederacy at a Civil War re-enactment told us they’d chosen their firing points at the top of buildings in Atlanta. From the film, Vigilantes Inc., America’s New Vote Suppression Hitmen, available to stream at no cost at WatchVigilantesInc.com
In my admittedly dark nightmare, the Molotov cocktails fly and the AR-15s slaughter dozens of pro-democracy demonstrators. The well-planned riots in Nevada and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, are not unexpected. Derek Molenhour, a booster of the openly-armed Three Percenters’ militias, told me, they have long prepared to launch what he calls their “revolution,” justified because Harris, they are certain, could only win by stealing the election.

We can easily imagine that the chaos and flames of insurrection could prevent Nevada’s and Pennsylvania’s newly elected members of the Electoral College from meeting to officially cast their ballots by the December 17 deadline.
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Armed Georgia militiamen—on January 6, 2020 at the state Capitol
Trump would be thrilled. With no candidate receiving 270 Electoral votes, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson will declare that the race will now be decided by the rules of the 12th Amendment. The 12th Amendment dictates that the House of Representatives will choose our President—and dig this—each state gets one single vote. California and New York will each get a vote. South and North Dakota each get a vote chosen by their Congressional delegations.

With 26 Congressional delegations controlled by Republicans, though a tiny minority of the US population, Trump would be voted back in as President.

On January 20, Americans stunned by this pseudo-legal coup d’état march on Washington. Newly inaugurated President Trump orders troops to round up, even shoot, those complaining about the theft of our democracy.

We are charged with “sedition.”

By January 21, I could be writing my column in an orange suit.
And I’ll have to tell my cell-mates, “I told you so.”
Please support the Palast Investigations Team. No other journalism organization goes undercover, goes inside MAGA world, inside the vigilante operations like we do. We are staying on the ground in Georgia, an expensive decision to continue our work…

Unlike other groups, we don’t constantly beg and cajole for funds. Our work is first, but we can’t continue this work in coordination with our partners—from Black Voters Matter to the NAACP to Rev. Jesse Jackson’s RainbowPUSH—without your support. This is the moment.

Please help us continue the work—which will not end on Tuesday.
 

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Additional signs include:

2020 General Election: The GOP lost the House, Senate, and WH

2022 Midterms Election: The predicted "GOP Tsunami" turned out to be a trickle with only a slim GOP majority in the U.S. House of Representatives and lost of more U.S. Senate seats. Most of the Trump-backed candidates lost elections. Overall, a net loss.

2024 General Election: The Early vote returns, so far, are not looking good for the GOP, after the Trump syndicate took over the RNC, including campaign finances, where Court case fees TRUMPED funding for GOP candidates. We'll see how the Court Cases OVER GOP Candidates strategy works out. Stay tuned.
 

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FCC NEEDS to STFU and go check what Elon doing on X and EVERYTHING Trump been saying on national airwaves before they go at SNL.

If she wins?

Kamala should do a little "revenge" tour too.

Well his PAC just got hit with a class action lawsuit and the SEC would like to speak to him.....His lil empire might be crumbling...

SEC Seeks Court Order Sanctioning Elon Musk for Testimony No-Show​

Musk's attorney said reimbursing the SEC for duplicative travel would be a fair remedy, but an SEC lawyer said a deterrent was needed.
October 28, 2024 at 12:42 PM
4 minute read
Administrative Law
Ellen Bardash
By Ellen Bardash


The SEC has asked a San Francisco federal court to sanction Elon Musk for failing to show up to testify about his 2022 acquisition of Twitter as scheduled in September.

Both SEC attorney Robin Andrews and Musk's attorney, Alex Spiro of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, submitted statements to the court on Friday.
Spiro said that reimbursing the SEC for counsel's duplicative travel expenses is a fair resolution, but Andrews argued that adding a finding that Musk violated a court order to appear is a needed deterrent.
The proposed sanctions in question are linked to testimony scheduled for Sept. 10, a date rescheduled from a year earlier, when Musk also did not appear. On Sept. 9, three SEC attorneys flew to Los Angeles but were allegedly informed by email the morning of Sept. 10 that Musk had flown to Florida for a SpaceX rocket launch and would not be testifying that day.

The SEC claims Musk knew of the launch and should have informed counsel of his change of plans more than three hours before he was scheduled to testify.
"Only after the SEC sought court intervention (again) and stated its intent to seek sanctions did Musk finally appear," the SEC's statement read. "The court should make clear that disregard for court orders comes with real consequences."
Spiro's statement says the rescheduling was due to an emergency, as the rocket launch was dependent on changing weather conditions and wasn't guaranteed to go forward until shortly before the launch was scheduled.

Musk has stipulated to pay just under $3,000 for the SEC's September travel expenses, which Spiro wrote is enough to resolve the issue without court intervention. A finding that Musk violated a court order isn't warranted on top of the reimbursement, Spiro wrote, because the court order in question stated testimony could be rescheduled with written consent, a requirement that had been met.
During a brief hearing on Sept. 27, U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley confirmed Musk's deposition was rescheduled for Oct. 3. The latest filing confirms Musk showed up to testify for roughly four hours at the SEC's Los Angeles office on that date.
"As a practical matter, the answer is straightforward: there is no sound reason to decide whether Mr. Musk violated the court's order given that he has now complied with that order and offered all of the compensation the SEC seeks," Spiro wrote.
"Only ordering reimbursement of travel costs would not serve as a real deterrent for many individuals considering violating a court order—much less someone of Musk's extraordinary means," Andrews wrote. "Reimbursement of the SEC's travel costs is inadequate because it does not fully address Musk's conduct and is inconsequential to him."
The SEC first turned to the court seeking enforcement of its investigative subpoena in October 2023. In its petition to the court, the SEC indicated a private investigation into whether Musk's 2022 acquisition of what was then Twitter violated federal securities laws had been going on since April 2022, when Musk first announced he was seeking to acquire the company. A deal was ultimately reached Oct. 27, 2022.
The commission claimed Musk had agreed in May 2023 to testify that September but said two days before the scheduled hearing that he would not be appearing, with part of his objection being to holding the hearing in San Francisco. Musk, according to the petition, refused the SEC's offer to have him instead testify in Fort Worth, Texas, in October or November 2023.
As of Oct. 28, Corley had not issued a ruling or scheduled a hearing on the sanctioning dispute.
SEC Seeks Court Order Sanctioning Elon Musk for Testimony No-Show
Musk's attorney said reimbursing the SEC for duplicative travel would be a fair remedy, but an SEC lawyer said a deterrent was needed.

October 28, 2024 at 12:42 PM

4 minute read

Administrative Law
Ellen Bardash
By Ellen Bardash
The SEC has asked a San Francisco federal court to sanction Elon Musk for failing to show up to testify about his 2022 acquisition of Twitter as scheduled in September.


Both SEC attorney Robin Andrews and Musk's attorney, Alex Spiro of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, submitted statements to the court on Friday.

Spiro said that reimbursing the SEC for counsel's duplicative travel expenses is a fair resolution, but Andrews argued that adding a finding that Musk violated a court order to appear is a needed deterrent.

The proposed sanctions in question are linked to testimony scheduled for Sept. 10, a date rescheduled from a year earlier, when Musk also did not appear. On Sept. 9, three SEC attorneys flew to Los Angeles but were allegedly informed by email the morning of Sept. 10 that Musk had flown to Florida for a SpaceX rocket launch and would not be testifying that day.


The SEC claims Musk knew of the launch and should have informed counsel of his change of plans more than three hours before he was scheduled to testify.

"Only after the SEC sought court intervention (again) and stated its intent to seek sanctions did Musk finally appear," the SEC's statement read. "The court should make clear that disregard for court orders comes with real consequences."

Spiro's statement says the rescheduling was due to an emergency, as the rocket launch was dependent on changing weather conditions and wasn't guaranteed to go forward until shortly before the launch was scheduled.


Musk has stipulated to pay just under $3,000 for the SEC's September travel expenses, which Spiro wrote is enough to resolve the issue without court intervention. A finding that Musk violated a court order isn't warranted on top of the reimbursement, Spiro wrote, because the court order in question stated testimony could be rescheduled with written consent, a requirement that had been met.

During a brief hearing on Sept. 27, U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley confirmed Musk's deposition was rescheduled for Oct. 3. The latest filing confirms Musk showed up to testify for roughly four hours at the SEC's Los Angeles office on that date.

"As a practical matter, the answer is straightforward: there is no sound reason to decide whether Mr. Musk violated the court's order given that he has now complied with that order and offered all of the compensation the SEC seeks," Spiro wrote.

"Only ordering reimbursement of travel costs would not serve as a real deterrent for many individuals considering violating a court order—much less someone of Musk's extraordinary means," Andrews wrote. "Reimbursement of the SEC's travel costs is inadequate because it does not fully address Musk's conduct and is inconsequential to him."

The SEC first turned to the court seeking enforcement of its investigative subpoena in October 2023. In its petition to the court, the SEC indicated a private investigation into whether Musk's 2022 acquisition of what was then Twitter violated federal securities laws had been going on since April 2022, when Musk first announced he was seeking to acquire the company. A deal was ultimately reached Oct. 27, 2022.

The commission claimed Musk had agreed in May 2023 to testify that September but said two days before the scheduled hearing that he would not be appearing, with part of his objection being to holding the hearing in San Francisco. Musk, according to the petition, refused the SEC's offer to have him instead testify in Fort Worth, Texas, in October or November 2023.

As of Oct. 28, Corley had not issued a ruling or scheduled a hearing on the sanctioning dispute.
 
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