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No. no, no. It was right the first time.

The sad thing is that his thralls will believe this without question and fight to the death defending it. Who needs Soma?

IT GETS WORSE?? Scientists Reporting Rare Amount of Severe Psychosis in COVID-19 Patients Getty A small number of COVID-19 patients worldwide are experiencing severe psychotic symptoms, The New York Times reported on Monday. While COVID-19 has been linked to psychological effects, most notably “brain fog,” researchers have begun to publish papers on more severe cases of psychosis, even in patients with no prior history of mental illness. One paper, published by the NIH’s National Library of Medicine, describes a 52-year-old man who developed suicidal paranoia after contracting the virus. As with much of the lesser-known symptoms of the coronavirus, medical researches do not yet know much about what causes these effects.

Republicans made their own worst nightmare come true in the most lurid way imaginable Yeah, so remember the nonsense that proto-Trump nitwit Sarah Palin spewed about "death panels" back when the Affordable Care Act was being debated? Like most of what she said, it was too crazy to believe. I mean, seriously. Rationing lifesaving care in America? Pfft. Like that would ever happ … Oh, what fresh hell is this?

Funny but true. Trump has a maniacal talent for destruction but little else.

Great! We're almost down to double-digit new infections, but the test will come next week when the results of Christmas gatherings will appear.

Rep. Louie Gohmert, Pack of GOPers Sue Mike Pence in Bid to Force VP to Pick Trump Electors on Jan. 6 REUTERS A group of Republicans including Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas and Kelli Ward of Arizona is suing Vice President Mike Pence in a desperate, last-ditch attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. The Electoral College is scheduled to certify the win on Jan. 6, a procedural task overseen by the sitting vice president—in this case, Pence, who has not yet publicly acknowledged the fact that Trump lost his bid for a second term. In the lawsuit, details of which reporter John Kruzel of The Hill posted on Twitter, Gohmert, Ward, and 10 other plaintiffs such as Students for Trump COO Tyler Bowyer, Arizona Republican Party Executive Director Greg Safsten, and Maricopa County Republicans Second Vice Chair Nancy Cottle, are asking federal Judge Jeremy Kernodle, a Trump appointee, to declare Pence legally authorized to pick pro-Trump electors on Jan. 6. Since Trump lost his November bid for a second term in the White House, certain members of the GOP have continued to stoke his delusion of having won by floating unlikely—and thus far, entirely unsuccessful—court challenges to President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. Meanwhile, other Republicans have urged the president to gracefully accept defeat. On Monday, Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-VA) retweeted news of the lawsuit against Pence with an exasperated, “This is NUTS.”

Here's how we know Trump isn’t serious about running in 2024 — he just want to 'burn down his party': conservative Although the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden is less than a month away, President Donald Trump hasn't publicly ruled out the possibility of running for president again in 2024. But conservative Washington Post opinion columnist Jennifer Rubin argues that the president's recent actions show that there will be no 2024 campaign in his future. "As if an attempted coup, insulting the 'totally incompetent and weak' Supreme Court — including three appointees who supposedly were his big gift to conservatives — and refusing even to comment on the COVID-19 surge did not make it clear, President Trump's recent actions should show he is not seriously contemplating another presidential run in 2024," Rubin writes in her column this week. "

When a Flat Earther Refused to Concede and All Hell Broke Loose: The forgotten saga of Zion, Illinois, is evidence that America’s political situation could still be a whole lot stupider. Nearly two months after the election, President Donald Trump still has not conceded his loss, even as members of his own party dismiss his voter fraud conspiracy theories. “You’re headed into the cliffs that guard the flat Earth at that time, brother,” Republican Rep. Denver Riggleman recently told Yahoo News, likening Trump’s claims to those of the flat-Earth movement. That is exactly where Trump is headed. While no modern president has refused to concede an election, his tactics are not without precedent in American politics. Along with an 1873 Texas governor who barricaded himself in office after losing re-election, Trump enjoys some remarkably fringe company—specifically, people who believe Earth is not an oblate spheroid, but a flat disc. In 1909, a notorious flat Earth preacher led a ballot-box putsch to maintain his stranglehold over an Illinois town. With declarations of “war,” two competing governments that claimed to be legitimate, and an armed siege between the two factions’ police chiefs at the county jail, the forgotten saga of Zion, Illinois, is evidence that America’s political situation could still be a whole lot stupider. (This is where Trump says" Hold my beer")

Astra Zeneca today stated that their vaccine is effective against the new variant.

Nashville Police Believe Man Responsible For Christmas Explosion Died In Blast Investigators linked Anthony Quinn Warner, 63, to human remains at the bomb site in downtown Nashville using DNA. Police believe no one else is involved. Officials in Nashville said that the man they believed set off a bomb in a recreational vehicle that shocked downtown Nashville on Christmas morning died in the explosion. Don Cochran, a U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, identified Anthony Quinn Warner as the man who bombed the city on Friday. Warner was “present when the bomb went off, and then he perished,” Cochran said Sunday at a news conference. Investigators linked the 63-year-old Antioch, Tennessee, man to the blast using DNA. The FBI said it also matched the RV’s vehicle identification number to a registration belonging to Warner. (Apparently this had something to do with the AT&T building at the detonation sight)

Not quite tunnel vision. If you are looking to buy a car, you would go to where the greatest likelihood of finding a car. If that turned out to be a dead end, then you would probably look elsewhere.

It occurs to me that if governments wanted people to stay home, all they would have to do is pay the streaming services to offer their programming for free.

With a total of 5 labs now offering vaccines (not to mention the questionable Russian and Chinese versions), the wait times ought to fall dramatically in the new year, so hang in there.

Metro Nashville Police Department Chief John Drake also revealed that police investigators “found tissue that we believe could be remains,” from the scene of the incident, but will be conducting further examinations to confirm. The FBI is now heading up the investigation into the explosion, which—if intentional as officials have suggested—could have been an act of domestic terrorism. However, authorities in Nashville said they received no threats of potential holiday attacks before the RV explosion on Christmas.

The developers of the Moderna vaccine have said they believe that their vaccine will be equally effective. This is far from a guarantee, though.

Police work on the highest probability approach to solving whodunits. And currently, right-wing violent acts are far and away the biggest internal threat the US faces. The FBI made that statement a few years ago, and the Trump regime has encouraged right-wing violence, so.......

Wild Scheme to Sabotage COVID Vaccine Is Too Creepy for Some Anti-Vaxxers AWAY WE GO Vaccines are here, and while skeptics hyping misinformation is nothing new, the frantic effort to conjure up dead people is getting spooky, fast. In the days since the United States began rolling out coronavirus vaccines, many Americans have been searching for information on when, where, and how they and their loved ones will be able to get a jab. The question of who gets to be first in line, and why, is inescapable. But a small, vocal minority has begun frantically trying to find something grimmer and nonexistent: evidence that these vaccines against COVID-19 have started killing people. “Comprehensive list of COVID vaccine-related deaths?” one Reddit user posted in a conspiracy theory-focused forum recently. “Anyone putting one together yet?” “Pick a date and time when the first recorded death of someone who had the vaccine [sic],” another user posted. “For bonus, which news site will announce it?” Anti-vaxxer rhetoric has, for many months now, primed some Americans to falsely believe that COVID-19 vaccines will kill people, that the powers that be will suppress it, and that they must hunt down and share evidence of this alleged outrage. Experts on anti-vaxxer rhetoric and conspiracy theories worry that this wild hunt for deaths and disaster could lead reasonable but worried people down conspiratorial rabbit holes, ultimately hindering efforts to curb this nightmare pandemic. The current quest for deaths is so off the rails that even some old-guard vaccine skeptics are distancing themselves from the frenzy. -Getty News

There is a report that human remains have been found at the detonation site.

Apparently Trump met privately with Pence for an hour prior to Trump jetting off to play golf while the GOP stalled the COVID relief bill and people were going hungry and dying. Pence was pressured by Trump to refuse to announce that Biden had won the electoral college vote vote, thereby throwing the results of the election into doubt. To his credit, the spineless Pence refused to not do his constitutional duty, This enraged Trump who barely controlled himself. Even after Trump was in Florida, he called Pence once again and spoke to him for an extended period, but was unable to convince Pence to change his mind. Trump is almost out of options. He has one more SCOTUS appeal, and then he will have only two possibilities: negotiate with Biden for a pardon in exchange for not inciting violent protests, or call for blood and fire in American streets, giving Trump a excuse to declare a national emergency and invoke martial law. The latter option would not cause Trump any hesitation.

'Going to get ugly': Trump supporter uses his work email to threaten ‘mass execution of public officials’ Michigan state Rep. Laurie Pohutsky (D) on Tuesday called out a supporter of President Donald Trump who sent a threatening email to lawmakers. "This was sent to my office this evening from Randall Yaeger, who chose to send it from his work email at Yaeger Construction. This email has already been sent to the authorities," Pohutsky said in a Facebook post. Yaeger's email repeated debunked claims of massive voter fraud and warned that "American voters will now be forced to change our government officials with bullets instead of ballots." The threatening email also "predicts" that the "mass execution" of public officials will begin "very soon" unless Trump is given a second term as president. According to Fox 2 Detroit, Yaeger could face up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for the threat if he is really the person who sent the email.

A deepening democracy crisis: More than 70 percent of Trump voters distrust the best-run election in years Angela Clark-Smith, a lawyer, started learning about the intricacies of observing elections when she was a member of the same sorority as Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. In 2020, three decades later, she was deployed by the Georgia Democratic Party to observe the presidential election and, most recently, the processing of returned absentee ballots in its Senate runoffs. "There's a process. It is very straightforward," Clark-Smith said during a break at an early voting center in an Atlanta suburb, where she praised poll workers and the process of verifying signatures on ballot envelopes and flagging problems for follow-up with voters. "Watching it was like watching a work of art." Elections in Georgia are better run than those in many blue states. But as the state has become a national battleground following Joe Biden's narrow win there and during Senate runoffs that could return control of Congress to the Democrats, the artful process that Clark-Smith has seen and praised has become a "circus," she says. Clark-Smith witnessed the turmoil that is tearing apart American democracy: where partisans do not understand the process; do not know what they are seeing as they view election administration up close for the first time; and are part of a tidal wave—nearly three-fourths of Republicans, according to an NPR poll conducted in early December—who don't trust that the 2020 election results are accurate. A deepening democracy crisis: More than 70 percent of Trump voters distrust the best-run election in years - Alternet.org (Putin's agenda has been fulfilled and America has been primed for a dictatorship)

Trump has managed to combine the worst of both Nero's and Caligula's reigns. He is determined to punish America for rejecting him and does not care who gets hurt or goes hungry.

And you are not alone in that view.