Morning Reads for November 23, 2020
Happy Thanksgiving Week!
Inasmuch as 2020 has been the wildest year of my existence, it has still been a year that has provided an abundance of reasons for which to give thanks. This Thanksgiving week, my little family is focused on gratitude for our family, our friends, technology, a roof over our heads, good health, and a year that provided us with the opportunity to reevaluate what is real important to us. As much as we are missing certain traditions and some parts of life as we knew it, this year of home, this year of rediscovering my kitchen, this year of slowing down, this year of rest, has not been all bad.
This week will be different, for sure, as will the rest of the holiday season. But my hope is we choose to focus on the good and celebrate the season, regardless of how it comes.
- Gov. Kemp asks Georgians to make tough, responsible choices amid COVID during Thanksgiving
- President Trump requests Georgia recount, meaning 5 million votes will be tabulated a 3rd time
- With Senate on the line, Georgia activists are sliding into voters’ DMs before election
- Meet the local 12-year-old genius already accepted to Georgia Tech
- Georgia State Election Board to consider emergency election rules for Jan. runoff
- Amherst area teens qualify for world barrel racing championships in Georgia next year
- Georgia gets another ‘F’ on premature births
- Georgia Supremes stop more punishment for former Judge Crawford
- McDonough wins Georgia High School Association award for sportsmanship
- ‘I want to help other children‘: Macon girl celebrates birthday by holding coat drive
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“Too crazy even for the President” from Newsmax:
“Attorney Sidney Powell, who the Trump campaign said Sunday is not part of the team representing it in legal challenges to the presidential election, has agreed that she does not work for the campaign or for President Donald Trump.
“I agree with the statement today,” Powell told The Wall Street Journal in a statement after President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani announced that she was not part of the team. “I will represent #WeThePeople and seek the Truth. I intend to expose all the fraud and let the chips fall where they may. We will not allow the foundations of this great Republic to be destroyed by abject fraud.”
Giuliani Sunday afternoon said in a statement that Powell, who represents the president’s former National Security Adviser Gen. Michael Flynn, is not part of the legal team after she appeared on Newsmax TV Saturday night and alleged massive voter fraud in Georgia.
She said in her interview that there were pay-for-play kickbacks to public officials, including potential involvement by Georgia GOP Gov. Brian Kemp, for a grant to use Dominion Voting Systems for the election, and that there was a ‘biblical’ lawsuit coming.
“Sidney Powell is practicing law on her own,” Giuliani and Jenna Ellis, a Trump campaign senior legal advisor and personal attorney to the president, said in a statement they signed.
As recently as last week, Powell appeared at a press conference with Giuliani, Ellis, and other members of Trump’s legal team, and took a turn speaking.
Trump also referred to Powell in a Nov. 14 tweet as part of his legal team.
The Washington Post, quoting two Trump advisers speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations, said the president did not like the coverage Powell had gotten from Fox News’ Tucker Carlson and others who called for her to show the evidence behind her claims.
The advisers also said that Powell fought with Giuliani and others in recent days, reports the Post.
An unnamed campaign official also told The Post that Trump believed Powell was hurting his case more than helping it, and that she was “too crazy even for the president.”
Meanwhile, Twitter also temporarily disabled Powell’s account over the weekend, Flynn tweeted, saying that she “has been suspended from Twitter for 12 hours. She understands the WH press release & agrees with it. She is staying the course to prove the massive deliberate election fraud that robbed #WeThePeople of our votes for President Trump & other Republican candidates.”
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/sidney-powell-trump-giuliani-election/2020/11/23/id/998297/
What Sydney Powell said on Saturday:
“President Donald Trump’s lawyer, Sidney Powell said an upcoming Georgia election lawsuit “will be biblical,” as Trump’s campaign continued its efforts to prove allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
“Georgia’s probably going to be the first state I’m gonna blow up,” Powell said in an interview with the conservative media outlet Newsmax TV on Saturday night.
“We’ve got tons of evidence. It’s so much, it’s hard to pull it all together,” Powell continued. “Hopefully, this week we will get it ready to file, and it will be biblical.
“Powell later claimed that Republican Georgia Governer Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger were being paid to be part of a conspiracy with Dominion Voting Systems.
“And Mr. Kemp and the secretary of state need to go with it because they’re in on the Dominion scam with their last-minute purchase or reward of a contract to Dominion of $100 million,” said Powell, alleging that Georgia law enforcement should investigate the claim.”
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-lawyer-sidney-powell-says-georgia-election-lawsuit-will-biblical-suggests-gop-governor-1549333
If the lawsuit will be “Biblical”, will it be the old testament or the new testament?
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean that they’re not after you.
Yeah, but when you find yourself storming the state capitol with the likes of Alex Jones a bit of introspection might be advised. A reasonable person should be able to see the line between healthy scepticism and delusion, if not derangement.
“Conspiracy theories are often seen as akin to folklore or urban legends — as mostly harmless, “what if” entertainment. But in the United States, conspiracy theories have much more power than these tales do. The conspiracy theory can be a political weapon, thanks to what historian Richard J. Hofstadter called “the paranoid style”: a tendency toward hyper-vigilant, alarmist, and absolutist beliefs that stem from a combination of “heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy.”
This tendency, which Hofstadter thought belonged only to a small minority of people, now undergirds much of American politics. Once-obscure conspiratorial ideas are now habitually deployed by national leaders like Trump and members of his outgoing administration, specifically to create further political tension.
“Typically, folklore spreads without much intentional direction,” Radford said. “What’s fascinating over the past few months and years is the weaponization of folklore…”
https://www.vox.com/21558524/conspiracy-theories-2020-qanon-covid-conspiracies-why
The inverse is true as well-just because you are paranoid does not mean they are after you. And please define “they”, pretty please?
Here is the monday afternoon reader for this Thanksgiving week.
“Republicans view Kemp as more vulnerable to a primary challenge than DeWine, noting that the Georgian has seen an erosion in support among conservatives.
He came under fire over his decision to appoint Kelly Loeffler to Georgia’s Senate seat over a Trump favorite, Rep. Doug Collins. And after endorsing Kemp in the 2018 gubernatorial contest, Trump has openly clashed with Kemp over his handling of the coronavirus. During an April news conference, the president said he was “not happy with Brian Kemp, I will tell you that.”
Trump allies have already begun to encourage Collins to challenge Kemp in 2022. When Hannity raised the idea during an interview on his radio show, Collins, who is leading Trump’s recount effort in Georgia, chuckled in response.
Kemp has seen his approval rating dip to 37 percent, according to a survey released last week. Republicans worry that a damaging primary could leave him hobbled in a potential general election rematch against former state House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams, whom he narrowly defeated in 2018.
Kemp on Friday certified the state’s 16 electoral votes for Biden, though he offered an olive branch to the president’s supporters, saying it was “unacceptable” that “thousands of uncounted ballots” were found in a post-election audit.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/22/trump-wreak-havoc-gop-white-house-438859
Lawton, who will you support? 2022 will be an interesting year.
President Donald Trump’s administration is ready to begin the formal transition process for President-elect Joe Biden, according to multiple news sources.
Administrator Emily Murphy of the General Services Administration sent Biden a letter Monday afternoon, CNN reported.
“I have always strived to do what is right,” Murphy said, according to reporter Jeremy Herb. “I came to my decision independently, based on law and available facts,” Murphy said in the letter.
“I was never directly or indirectly pressured by any Executive Branch official—including those who work at the White House or GSA—with regard to the substance or timing of my decision,” Murphy wrote in the letter to Biden.
https://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/report-trump-administration-ready-to-begin-formal-transition-process/HNHQWRO4BVBEHIU4SBKNFY3JNE/
Finally, we are out of this quagmire!