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Hard to believe a) that Trump supporters follow the rule of law and b) would have a hard time getting guns in Washington and c) they would be loathe to resort to violence

Rep. Gohmert Calls for Street Violence as Another Legal Loss Sends MAGA World Spiraling. “In effect, the [court] ruling would be that you gotta go the streets and be as violent as Antifa and BLM,” Gohmert, a former judge, said. Far-right conspiracy theorists and ultra conservative members of the GOP—who have less and less daylight between them as the days go by—have gone into collective meltdown mode, apparently triggered, at least in part, by calls for violence by Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-TX) and Trump-allied lawyer L. Lin Wood. On Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Jeremy Kernodle, who was appointed by President Donald Trump, dismissed a hail-mary lawsuit filed by Gohmert and 11 Arizona Republicans that attempted to give Vice President Mike Pence the ability to overturn the results of the November presidential election won by Joe Biden. As the president of the Senate, Pence will preside over the ceremonial counting of the Electoral College votes, which have already certified Biden as the clear winner, on Wednesday. In an interview Friday evening on pro-Trump news network Newsmax, Gohmert falsely claimed that letting the will of the voters stand would “mean the end of our republic, the end of the experiment in self-government." Gohmert then seemed to encourage violence as a means to this end. “But bottom line is, the court is saying, ‘We’re not going to touch this. You have no remedy’—basically, in effect, the ruling would be that you gotta go the streets and be as violent as Antifa and BLM.” Louie Gohmert Calls for Street Violence as Pence Lawsuit Loss Sends MAGA World Spiraling (thedailybeast.com)

Damn. This is probably the Christmas/High Holiday socializing result. We can probably expect a week or so of days like this.

Another bizarre pro-Trump election lawsuit bites the dust Loony Louie Gohmert just had his zany lawsuit against Vice President Mike Pence tossed on the sad heap of Krakens. Gohmert and some other Republicans were trying to get the courts to require Pence to abuse his position as U.S. Senate presiding officer to make his own call about which electors counted on January 6. Once again, the nonsense of the Republicans' legal clown car was rejected by a Republican judge appointed to his post by Donald Trump. This time it was Judge Jeremy Kernodle hammering one more nail in the judicial coffin. LawandCrime.com had this report tonight: A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed against Vice President Mike Pence by Rep. Louie Gohmert and fake pro-Trump electors on Friday, finding that plaintiffs lacked standing.

That would be a highly debatable assumption.

Apparently the US Secret Service is going to be weeded out as soon as Biden is in the saddle. There are about 300 Secret Service agents and some are loyal to Trump to the extent where they were not wearing masks and trying to convince/pressure other agents to not wear masks so as to not make Trump look bad. I would think that there is going to be a lot blood letting in Washington in about three weeks.

Well, it looks like everyone survived silvester. A good start to the new year.

Most of the 126 Senators will vote to delay or invalidate the election results. If it hasn't already been obvious, the GOP does not embarrass easily or have much regard for any law that does not benefit them or their agenda. Trump wants chaos and violence to validate his sense of outrage at not being re-elected and give him an excuse to invoke martial law.

Apparently this is a fake, and was circulated a couple of years ago. True, though.

Not looking forward to the numbers next week.

Put it this way- Trump's chances of legally overturning the election are no worse than when he started all this crap.

Alabama lite.

Doesn't really matter- associating with the KKK down there is a popularity booster.

Better days to come, and we will face them together!

He and the cabinet minister from Saskatchewan should have been fired on the spot.

Apparently Ted Cruz has been soliciting donations to "fight for free and fair elections in Georgia" but is funneling all the money into his own election coffers in preparation for the next election. The grift goes on and on....

We shall see. I am willing to give the benefit of a doubt for now.

Pro-Trump Missouri senator announces he will contest Biden’s certification Acknowledging Joe Biden as president-elect, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has been urging Senate Republicans not to voice objections when a joint session of Congress meets on January 6 to certify the Electoral College results. But Sen. Josh Hawley, a far-right Trump loyalist, has announced that he will contest the certification. With Biden's inauguration only three weeks away, President Donald Trump continues to make debunked claims that he was the victim of widespread voter fraud. The Electoral College certified the election results when it met on December 14, but Hawley, in his statement, said, "At the very least, Congress should investigate allegations of voter fraud and adopt measures to secure the integrity of our elections. But Congress has so far failed to act." Pro-Trump Missouri senator announces he will contest Biden’s certification - Alternet.org.................

Yup. sorry about that.

Pro-Trump Missouri senator announces he will contest Biden’s certification Acknowledging Joe Biden as president-elect, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has been urging Senate Republicans not to voice objections when a joint session of Congress meets on January 6 to certify the Electoral College results. But Sen. Josh Hawley, a far-right Trump loyalist, has announced that he will contest the certification. With Biden's inauguration only three weeks away, President Donald Trump continues to make debunked claims that he was the victim of widespread voter fraud. The Electoral College certified the election results when it met on December 14, but Hawley, in his statement, said, "At the very least, Congress should investigate allegations of voter fraud and adopt measures to secure the integrity of our elections. But Congress has so far failed to act." Pro-Trump Missouri senator announces he will contest Biden’s certification - Alternet.org

British Government Predicts Pandemic Will End in Spring as Oxford/AstraZeneca Vaccine Is Approved Reuters/Paul Ellis The Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine won approval from British regulators Wednesday—a landmark moment that the U.K. government claims will see off the pandemic by the spring. Britain is the first nation in the world to approve the Oxford shot, which is cheaper and easier to store than other vaccines. The country has ordered 100 million doses, which, when combined with its store of Pfizer-BioNTech shots, will be enough to vaccinate the whole population. Interestingly, the approval came with a shift in Britain’s vaccine strategy—it’s now aiming to give as many people as possible their first shot, to provide some level of protection to more people, rather than focusing on giving the required double dose of the vaccine to a smaller number of extremely vulnerable people. Health Secretary Matt Hancock said Wednesday: “We now know, with a very high degree of confidence, that we’re going to be out of this by the spring.” Read it at BBC News

Ah, a Mike Mercury fan.

Trump paid off his convicted flunkies with pardons but not one of those who testified against them- a clear message.

Nothing in reports so far have indicated that the variant is more virulent than the primary virus- just more easily transmittable. We need to hope and pray that no deadlier variants appear- there is evidence that one did appear in New Jersey, wiping out 5 of 6 members of one household, but it appears to have been contained.