The Devil Called Down To Georgia

The Devil Called Down To Georgia

The Devil called down to Georgia
He was lookin' for some votes to steal
He was in a bind 'cause he was way behind
And he was willin' to make a deal
When he came across Brad Raffiensperger
Keepin the voting fair (well sort of)
And the Devil Trump sat upon his rump
And said, "Brad, let me tell you what"

"I guess you probably know it, but I'm a Republican too
And if you'd care to take a dare, I'll make a threat to you
Now you play pretty good Republican, boy, but give the Devil his due
I'll bet a bribe of gold against your soul
'Cause I think I can intimidate you" (into breaking the law)

He said, "My name's Brad, and this is not a crime
I'll hear you're shit cause your gonna regret
'Cause I recorded your call this time

Brad, clicked the record button and clicked that button hard
'Cause Hell's broke loose in Georgia and the Devil deals the cards
And if I you win, you get this shiny pile of my gold
But if I lose, the devil gets your soul

The Devil opened up his case and he said, "I'll start this show"
And shit flew from his mouth/asshole as he opened his lie hole
And he spread the shit across the call like a like Russian hooker piss
And a band of traitors joined in, and it sounded somethin' like this

When the Devil finished
Brad said, "Well, you're pretty good ol' son
But sit down in that chair with your silly hair
And let me show you how it's done"

"Traitor in the White House", run, boys, run
The Devil's in the house with his criminal son
Chickens in the congress sellin their souls
On a plane to Gitmo Moscow go traitors go

The orange Devil bowed his head because he knew that he'd been beat
And he began to kiss some ass and then he kissed Brad's feet
Brad said, "Devil, just call on back if you ever wanna try again
I done told you once, you son of a bitch
You're the worst there's ever been" Then he said

"Traitor in the White House", run, boys, run
The Devil's in the house with his criminal son
Chickens in the congress sellin their souls
On a plane to Gitmo with the orange asshole

Caveat: Brad Raffensperger is no hero. He knows that if he committed election fraud for Trump he'd go to prison. Earlier, Leningrad Lindsey Graham as per Trump's whims tried a softer criminal extortion approach and got shut down.  

The Republicans have probably rigged the run off and so that angry peasants won't show up at Brad's house. He rebuked Trump to show the illusion of integrity and avoid prison. Most Republicans are snakes and the ones standing up for the rule of law are simply practicing self-preservation to avoid prison and keep their phony baloney jobs.

On the other hand, Raffenspergerper showed some balls which is rare for a modern era Southern Republican. He was put between a rock and a hard place but because he's smarter than the average Republican he really had no choice in the matter so he behaved lawfully. Republicans such as Lyin Ted and Leningrad Lindsey would have eventually licked Trump's balls. Trump's traitorous cowardly loyalists are issuing death threats against anyone who follows the law, even Republicans. If Brad want to be a hero, he will denounce the Republican base for the depraved animals that they are.

Raffensperger would be smart to keep Georgia's MAGAts under surveillance and bust them if they so much as spit on the side walk. A few no knock raids and arrests of MAGAts may blunt those loser's enthusiasm for violence, treason, lying and anarchy. In the mean time the new COVID variants are killing mostly MAGAts.  

MAGAts have made multiple death threats to Georgia's Republican leaders for merely obeying the law and they managed to get the private cell phone numbers of Raffensperger and his wife. MAGAts have no honor. Their rifles are hungry, their tempers are short, their IQs are low, their morals are lacking and their judgement is weak. That makes them very dangerous. These assholes think they can overthrow the government. 

Trump's Latest Crime

As word spread Sunday of President Trump’s astonishing phone conversation with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger the day before, there was widespread speculation that the president had committed one or more crimes in his effort to overturn the results of the election in Georgia, including extortion and, ironically, election fraud.

A recording of the one-hour call was released Sunday by the Washington Post. The president is heard pressuring Raffensperger to “find 11,780 votes” that would put him in the lead over President-elect Joe Biden in Georgia, which has already certified its results.

Trump also threatens Raffensperger with the possibility of criminal charges unless he comes up with the votes to overturn the election results.

“You know, that’s a criminal — that’s a criminal offense. And you know, you can’t let that happen,” Trump says on the call. “That’s a big risk to you and to Ryan, your lawyer. That’s a big risk.”

The Post did not say who recorded the call or how it obtained the tape.

Trump offered no direct evidence of voter fraud in Georgia, instead offering second-hand conspiracy theories about manipulated voting machines, ballots being scanned multiple times and votes simply being thrown out — all of which were investigated by Georgia law enforcement and the FBI, and found to be untrue. But Trump went beyond trying to prove that he won the state by “hundreds of thousands of votes,” pressuring Raffensperger to simply announce a new vote total showing him beating Biden.

“There’s nothing wrong with saying that, you know, that you’ve recalculated,” the president said.

Joined on the call by his general counsel, Ryan Germany, Raffensperger calmly and methodically disputes Trump’s election theories.

“Well, Mr. President, the challenge that you have is the data you have is wrong,” Raffensperger said.

Trump’s actions could constitute election fraud. Section 52 of the U.S. Code concerns voting and elections, and provides for a sentence of up to five years for:

“A person, including an election official, who in any election for Federal office

(1) knowingly and willfully intimidates, threatens, or coerces, or attempts to intimidate, threaten, or coerce, any person for-

(A) registering to vote, or voting, or attempting to register or vote;

(B) urging or aiding any person to register to vote, to vote, or to attempt to register or vote; or

(C) exercising any right under this chapter; or

(2) knowingly and willfully deprives, defrauds, or attempts to deprive or defraud the residents of a State of a fair and impartially conducted election process, by

(A) the procurement or submission of voter registration applications that are known by the person to be materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent under the laws of the State in which the election is held; or

(B) the procurement, casting, or tabulation of ballots that are known by the person to be materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent under the laws of the State in which the election is held.”

Trump’s citing possible criminal charges for Raffensperger unless he produces a different election result in Georgia could be seen as extortion, which section 18, chapter 41 of the U.S. code expressly prohibits.

The former lead counsel in Trump’s impeachment trial — which was predicated on what Trump called his “perfect phone call” to the president of Ukraine — agreed that this was also a less-than-perfect call by the president.

NYU law professor and former DOJ lawyer Andrew Weissmann also noted the similarity with Trump’s attempts to pressure Ukraine’s government to investigate Joe and Hunter Biden.

Trump’s call also raised the question of sedition, which is defined as “conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch.”

In a statement Sunday, Biden senior adviser Bob Bauer made many of those same points.

“We now have irrefutable proof of a president pressuring and threatening an official of his own party to get him to rescind a state’s lawful, certified vote count and fabricate another in its place,” Bauer said in his statement.

While flipping Georgia’s 16 electoral votes would not, by itself, change the outcome of the presidential election, it would be an important symbolic victory for Trump as he fights to overturn the results in several other swing states, including Michigan and Pennsylvania.

Trump did more than threaten Raffensperger; at several points he was reduced to pleading.

“Fellas, I need 11,000 votes, give me a break,” he says near the end of the call.

Whether Trump’s words result in legal troubles for the 45th president once he leaves office remains to be seen. If it does, though, Michael Bromwich, former Department of Justice inspector general and former assistant U.S. attorney suggested one possible defense.

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Trump Lawyer Wants Mike Pence Executed By Firing Squad

 Op Ed: Lin Wood is crazier than a shit house rat but so are many Trump supporters the rest of Trump supporters are evil or crazy and evil. Love him or hate him Pence is just a sleazy Republican and his betrayal of Trump should be applauded and not punished. Of all the traitors in the Trump regime Mike Pence is low on the list. Pence is not guilty of treason but he is guilty of Misprision of  Treason for not spilling the beans of Trump. When you know of crimes and you fail to report them you are guilty of Misprision of Treason and Misprision of  Felony.

I would not want to be in Pence's shoes. He has nothing to worry about from the human but Lin Wood's dog whistle in resonating strongly with the MAGAt who see Trump as God. Pence would be wise to plead no contest to Misprision of Felony and spend a few months in Federal Prison aka Club Fed so that the MAGAts will see him as a hero and a victim and will opt not to assassinate him or he can lay low and wait for the heat to die down.

Lin Wood knows that Pence won't be tried for treason treason and executed by firing squad but Lin Wood knows that the MAGAts may take justice into their own hands and try to kill Pence and his family so the real question is, why does Trump want Pence dead and what does Pence know. Pence knows a lot.

Pro-Trump lawyer Lin Wood insists he is not insane after tweeting that Mike Pence should face execution by firing squad

• L. Lin Woods, a pro-Trump attorney, tweeted that Mike Pence could be arrested and executed for treason.

• The attorney dismissed claims of "insanity," telling his followers that he is "fine."

• Some Republicans are angry with Pence for asking a court to throw out a lawsuit against him that sought to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

• Wood has previously filed several failed lawsuits attempting to overturn the election's result in Trump's favor.

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Related: Trump angry at Pence for not supporting his election overturn attempt

Report: Trump angry at Pence for not supporting his attempts to overturn election

President Trump is furious at Vice President Mike Pence and other top White House officials who are not joining his attempts to overturn the 2020 election result, Axios reported Tuesday.

L. Lin Wood, a conservative attorney and Trump ally, has rejected questions about his sanity after he tweeted that Vice President Mike Pence should face a firing squad.

The lawyer, who has litigated numerous failed attempts to overturn the result of the 2020 US election, posted a Twitter thread on Friday afternoon.

He wrote about how those who believe the election was stolen have focused on Democrats, the CIA, and "globalists."

Read more: Secret Service experts are speculating in group chats about how Trump might be hauled out of the White House if he won't budge on Inauguration Day

Wood then said that "one of the main participants" had been overlooked - the Republicans.

Attorney Lin Wood, member of President Donald Trump's legal team, gestures while speaking during a rally on Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020, in Alpharetta, Ga. Ben Margot/Associated Press

He then proceeded to call for senior Republicans and a conservative-leaning judge to be arrested.

Wood wrote: "When arrests for treason begin, put Chief Justice John Roberts, VP Mike Pence, and Mitch McConnell at top of the list."

Then, in reply to a tweet, Wood suggested that Pence should be executed by firing squad.

He wrote: "If Pence is arrested, Pompeo will save the election. Pence will be in jail awaiting trial for treason. He will face execution by firing squad. He is a coward and will sing like a bird and confess ALL."

On social media, many voiced their disbelief at the comments.

Wood, however, dismissed accusations of "insanity."

He wrote: "The tweets about my insanity are at an all-time high this morning. Wonder why?"

The lawyer continued: "No worries. I am fine. The attacks do not concern me."

In recent weeks, Pence has been criticized by some Republicans for refusing to declare President Donald Trump the winner of the election when he oversees the ratification of the Electoral College votes on January 6.

A lawsuit was filed by Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas and other Republicans against Pence, claiming that he has the authority to choose which states' electoral votes to count.

The legal bid, however, was dismissed. Pence's lawyers had asked for it to be thrown out.

It was a last-ditch attempt to overturn the results of the election in Trump's favor.

Wood had made several attempts prior to this to undermine Joe Biden's victory.

In November, he filed a federal lawsuit in Georgia which sought to prevent the state from certifying its results.

A month later, Wood joined Sidney Powell in a legal bid to try and overturn Biden's win in Michigan.

In addition to spreading disinformation about the election, Wood has propagated the QAnon conspiracy theory.

Earlier this week, he bizarrely claimed that Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is a murderous pedophile.

Read the original article on Business Insider

Iran Vows To Kill Trump

 Op Ed: Iran's officials are probably just blowing smoke and while I'm sure most Iranians want Trump and his mob dead but I think they are too inept to pull it off and I think they know that. They might on the other hand be able to kill off or kidnap some minor players in the Trump mob who don't have secret service protection. Iran will see it simply as "If you're not against Trump then then you are for him." 

When HW Bush left office there was an attempt on his life and Bill Clinton quickly responded with an air attack on Iraq. I doubt if Biden will take similar action if Iran tries or succeeds in killing Trump. President HW Bush wasn't a traitor, thief, a racist or a pedophile.

Iran may choose easier targets such as some of Trump's mouth pieces. It would not be in Iran's best interest to kill Trump and make a martyr.  

Iran will most likely do nothing but I would not totally rule it out. Iran may be more sophisticated than most people think and perhaps they can take out Trump and his family and make it look like an accident.

December 2020 Was The Deadliest COVID-19 Month

 The United States closed out 2020 with the deadliest and most infectious month since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, while also surpassing 20 million confirmed Covid-19 cases.

More than 77,000 people lost their lives in December to Covid-19, while 6.4 million contracted the virus amid the emergence of a new virus variant and delayed efforts to get people vaccinated. The second-deadliest month was April 2020, with more than 58,000 deaths.

At least 227,651 new cases were reported on Thursday and 3,451 people died, marking the second-highest daily death toll, according to on NBC News' tally.

The virus has killed more than 356,000 people in the U.S.

At least four cases of a new Covid-19 variant first detected in the United Kingdom have been reported in Colorado, California and Florida. However, Dr. Mercedes Carnethon, vice chair of preventive medicine at Northwestern University, said experts are "fairly confident this variant is now everywhere."

This variant also "appears to affect more adults under age 20," Carnethon told MSNBC. "And I think the reason why that's particularly critical is that this younger adult population is circulating more. They are performing some of the essential roles such as delivery work, factory work and they're just generally out there in the population, and that population isn't in line to be vaccinated soon."

Last updated: January 01, 2021, 22:19 GMT

 United States

Coronavirus Cases:

20,572,820

Deaths:

356,935

Last updated: January 02, 2021, 23:11 GMT

 United States

Coronavirus Cases:

20,866,477

Deaths:

358,653

Op Ed: The actual December covid deaths are still being counted and covid deaths in general are under counted. The real number is probably over 100,000. The January and February surge will surpass 250,000 deaths and most of the dead will be MAGAts.

Criminal David Perdue In Quarantine

 

Sen. Perdue in quarantine after exposure to person who tested 

positive for COVID

Jay Busbee

Thu, December 31, 2020, 3:45 PM EST

ATLANTA — With days to go before a decisive runoff election, incumbent Sen. David Perdue is in quarantine after coming in close contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19.

“This morning, Senator Perdue was notified that he came into close contact with someone on the campaign who tested positive for COVID-19,” Perdue’s campaign said in a Thursday statement. “Both Senator Perdue and his wife tested negative [Thursday], but following his doctor’s recommendations and in accordance with CDC guidelines, they will quarantine. The Senator and his wife have been tested regularly throughout the campaign, and the team will continue to follow CDC guidelines.”

Georgia Sen. David Perdue. (Jessica McGowan/Getty Images)

The quarantine comes at a particularly crucial time for Perdue, who is locked in a tight battle with Democratic challenger Jon Ossoff for one of Georgia’s two Senate seats. The Perdue-Ossoff runoff election, as well as the concurrent race between Republican incumbent Kelly Loeffler and Democratic challenger Raphael Warnock, will determine the composition of the U.S. Senate for the first two years of President-elect Joe Biden’s term.

Perdue has spent the last few weeks barnstorming across the state to rally support, and his campaign Twitter feed indicates that the senator has been present at numerous events, many of them indoors, where a significant percentage of attendees were not wearing masks. The CDC strongly advises against gathering in large numbers, particularly indoors, because of the possibility of virus transmission.

Current CDC guidelines also call for a 14-day quarantine for anyone who may have been in contact with a person with COVID-19, although there can be mitigating circumstances based on negative tests. Regardless, the quarantine will likely sideline Perdue for most if not all of the remainder of the campaign.

Perdue is scheduled to campaign with President Trump at a rally in Dalton, Ga., on Monday night. It’s unclear whether he will be able to attend. Early voting in Georgia ended on Thursday, and the runoff will be held on Tuesday, Jan. 5.

Both Senate runoff races appear incredibly close. FiveThirtyEight’s average of all polls analyzing the Georgia runoffs puts Ossoff ahead by 0.9 percentage points. Perdue was ahead by 0.4 points as recently as Dec. 29. Neither candidate has held a lead greater than 1 percentage point since November.

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Trump's Vaccine Screw Up

 Carl Hiaasen

Fri, January 1, 2021, 1:32 PM EST

The day before returning to the White House for New Year’s Eve, Donald Trump played golf at his country club in West Palm Beach. He was there from 9:26 a.m. to 2:33 p.m., a leisurely round.

Meanwhile thousands of his fellow Floridians in the same high-risk bracket spent many of those hours strangling their phones, unsuccessfully trying to get an appointment for the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Others lined up early at inoculation sites, only to be sent home after supplies soon ran out.

“Operation Warp Speed” currently looks more like “Operation WTF.” The big rollout is rocky and slow throughout the country, but the only surprise is that people are actually surprised.

Given the hapless void of federal leadership, think of how many things would have to go right in order to vaccinate an entire population — or even, say, 70 percent — of 331 million people. The supply-chain logistics are mind blowing, the costs astronomical.

That there are even vaccines available is amazing, considering how new this virus is. Lots of folks remain skeptical about receiving the injections, and whatever decision they make will have Darwinian consequences.

With the grim winter surge in COVID hospitalizations, multitudes of informed Americans are rightfully worried about getting sick, and they want to get inoculated as soon as possible. The key to sanely enduring the next few months is to lower one’s expectations, keep your masks on and make friends with your phone.

Being a certain age, I have a vaccine hotline number on my speed-dial. It always rings busy, but I dutifully try over and over. The county where I live received only a few hundred vials and ran out within hours. Officials say they don’t know when more will arrive, but they’ll let us know.

The Trump administration had promised 20 million vaccinations by the year’s end. As of New Year’s Day, about 14 million doses had been distributed nationally and only 2.8 million Americans had received the injection.

Many states received smaller shipments than expected, and have pleaded for federal funds to help expedite and organize the mass vaccines. The president tweeted Wednesday that the government has done its job, and told the states to “get moving.”

Then he went to the golf course.

In Monroe, Louisiana, the family of Luke Letlow was planning his funeral. Newly elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, Letlow died last week after being hospitalized with COVID-19.

He was only 41 and had no underlying health issues, according to doctors. He had a wife and two young children. That he was a Republican is irrelevant; the virus doesn’t care.

After all this time, predicting who will get fatally sick and who won’t is still dicey. Nationwide, about 344,000 Americans died from COVID-related causes in 2020 — substantially more than all the U.S. soldiers killed during World War II.

In Florida, where the death toll has surpassed 21,000, we have a governor who, like Trump, sidelined the infectious-disease experts, downplayed the breadth of the threat and ducked responsibility when the outbreak exploded.

And, like Trump, Ron DeSantis is now banking on the vaccine to sanitize his legacy of denial and misdirection.

The politicization of the pandemic has cost way too many lives, and at this point the jig should be up. Almost everyone understands that COVID-19 is far more deadly than common influenza, and almost everyone knows somebody who’s gotten seriously ill or died.

So of course the vaccine appointment hotlines are lighting up while the shots get administered in a relative trickle. Florida dispensed less than 25 percent of the 1.2 million units it received before Jan. 1. With no plan coming from Tallahassee, each county must patch together its own program.

That’s discouraging, but hardly shocking. For Floridians, any expectation of bureaucratic efficiency is unrealistic — ask anyone who spent weeks and even months trying to collect emergency unemployment payments on a state website apparently managed by stoned raccoons.

In the end, patience will win out because there’s no other way. Not all 22 million Floridians want to be vaccinated, but those who do — and aren’t in urgent need — will eventually be able to get their shots at a CVS or Walgreens.

The trick is staying safe until then. The state’s positivity rate for COVID-19 tests jumped ominously to 11.5 percent by Thursday.

While working on this column, I continued trying to phone my local COVID hotline, as advised. Finally the call went through, and a short recorded message said the vaccine was all gone, for now. Click.

Which was more helpful than a busy signal. But not much.