12/16/20: An iceberg the size of Delaware, which broke
loose in 2017, is floating in the South Atlantic. It may soon plow into the island
of South Georgia and get stuck, melting slowly (perhaps over the next decade).
If it does it will release enough fresh water into the ocean to drastically
alter the environment around the island. According to scientists, the berg
“weighs hundreds of billions of tons.”
Asked about this development,
President Trump tells reporters, “I won the election in South Georgia with ease.”
(Satire, of course.)
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Waldron, during an appearance on Lou Dobbs' show. |
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LOOK, WE KNOW
Mr. Trump refuses to accept the fact he lost, and seems to grow angrier by the hour.
He now faces ignominious removal from the White House in just 34 days. We have
been updating the “Stages of Grief” as necessary. The original six became nine.
Then yesterday: eleven.
An astute former student, Mark Napier,
suggested adding “grifting” and all of the Seven Deadly Sins. All seven apply
at some point, but not necessarily to the current situation. We highlight those
which do apply in italics, and add another from Mr. Napier, plus one or
two of our own.
We now have:
The Sixteen Stages of Grief
Denial
Tweeting
Anger
Golfing
Grifting
Envy
Hiding out
Desperation
Stupidity
Hallucinating
Bargaining
Lying
Depression
More Lying
Wrath
Acceptance
Inauguration
At this point, it’s clear the poor president
is never going to get to “acceptance.” So, we have a new final stage of grief. (See: 11/25/20, 12/15/20, 12/16/20 and
1/22/21 for the
original, intermediate and final lists.)
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CREDE BAILEY, director of the White House security
office, was in intensive care
for three months and had part of his leg amputated after contracting the
coronavirus. No explanation for why the White House kept his condition secret
until now.
(We can guess.)
Bailey faces steep medical bills. An online fundraiser has been set
up on his behalf. People familiar with the situation tell ABC News he was
hospitalized in September. No word if Trump contributed to his fund.
Highly unlikely.
POSTSCRIPT: The president is not the only proto-fascist to be having
trouble accepting the election results. On his show today, Rush Limbaugh tells
listeners that Biden “didn’t win this thing fair and square, and we’re not
going to be docile like we’ve been in the past, and go away and wait till
the next election.”
He goes on to exclaim, “Seventy-four
million plus Americans are not going to shut up, and you tell them that their
views don’t matter? You do not know what you’re creating. You do not know the
enemy you are manufacturing.”
BLOGGER’S NOTE: The New York Times will later do an analysis of transcripts
from his show, between 11/22/20 and 1/5/21. Limbaugh will refer to the election
as “fraudulent,” “stolen,” “rigged” or “illegal” on 32 of 45 episodes.
BLOGGER’S NOTE #2: We won’t know this
until February 2022; but on this date, December 16, 2020, Trump allies are
already drafting a plan which would allow President Trump to seize voting
machines in several states in an attempt to prove the election was stolen.
A draft report circulating states:
I, Donald J. Trump, President of the
United States, find that the forensic report of Antrim County, Michigan voting
machines, released December 13, 2020, and other evidence submitted to me in
support of this order, provide probable cause sufficient to require action
under the authorities cited above because of evidence of international and
foreign interference in the November 3, 2020, election. Dominion Voting Systems
and related companies are owned or heavily controlled and influenced by foreign
agents, countries, and interests. The forensic report prepared by experts found
that “the Dominion Voting System is intentionally and purposefully designed
with inherent errors to create systemic fraud and influence election results.
The system intentionally generates an enormously high number of ballot
errors... The intentional errors lead to bulk adjudication of ballots with no
oversight, no transparency, and no audit trail. This leads to voter or election
fraud.” The report found the election management system to be wrought with
unacceptable and unlawful vulnerabilities—including access to the internet—
probable cause to find evidence of fraud, and numerous malicious actions.
This
order would have given the Department of Defense authority to seize all the
machines in states Trump lost. Such as Georgia.
For
some reason, no one on Team Trump wants to examine the voting machines in, say,
Florida, where Trump won.
Or
North Carolina.
Or
Ohio.
This email is the work of retired Army Col. Phil Waldron, and retired Army
Gen. Michael T. Flynn.
Fortunately,
when the idea of seizing the machines is broached to the Department of Defense,
the plan is shot down. (See 12/17/20.)
We also know that in June 2021, a
report produced by a Republican-led Michigan Senate committee blows to bits the idea that there was any
significant voter fraud in Antrim County, which people like Waldron and Flynn
believed there was. As the GOP chair of the committee explained, “We must all remember: ‘extraordinary claims
require extraordinary proof’ and ‘claiming to find something extraordinary
requires first eliminating the ordinary.’”
Yet,
Flynn and his crew, with the support of President Trump, had plans to overturn
the vote for one fundamental reason.
Trump
lost.
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