Yesterday I went off of my news diet of Trump tweets. I had been inside the Trumposphere since November 27th. Emerging from my nuclear bunker, here is what I knew and what I did not know:
What I knew:
- Trump has been contesting the 2020 US presidential election, crying voter fraud. I wrote a post about it: The last two weeks – according to Trump’s tweets
- Biden won the Electoral College vote.
- Trump pardoned Michael Flynn.
- Trump fired Bill Barr as the US Attorney General.
- Hunter Biden is under investigation.
- Giuliani got covid-19.
- The new covid-19 vaccines are now in use on an emergency basis.
- The US recognized Western Sahara as part of Morocco.
- The Cleveland Indians baseball team wants to change its name.
- Ethiopia is still in flames. Or was the other day. That is what my mother told me.
- The Proud Boys “went on a tour” of the White House. That is what my sister told me.
What I did not know:
- Biden:
- I heard nothing about Biden’s cabinet picks, just that they are supposedly Chinese communist stooges and therefore a Threat to the Republic.
- Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are Time magazine’s Person of the Year.
- The coronavirus:
- Coronavirus deaths in the US topped 300,000. Daily deaths reaching new highs of over 3,000. (There was no bad news on the pandemic on Trump’s Twitter timeline.)
- Dr Fauci warns that December and January will be bleak.
- Scott Atlas resigned, the Trump adviser who pushed herd immunity.
- Some states have allowed the moratorium on evictions to lapse, worsening the pandemic.
- The 2020 election:
- Proud Boys stabbed people in Washington, DC at protests last weekend and burned Black Lives Matter signs.
- Election officials in Michigan received death threats.
- Trump:
- Trump is considering pre-emptive pardons for his children, Jared Kushner and Rudy Giuliani.
- Jared Kushner visited the Persian Gulf.
- Ivanka Trump was deposed in a lawsuit concerning the misuse of money raised for the 2016 inauguration.
- A judge ordered Trump to fully restore DACA (Dreamers).
- Bill Barr had Brandon Bernard and Alred Bouregeois executed.
- Trump is trying to bring back firing squads.
- Black America:
- Casey Goodson Jr was shot by police while armed with a sandwich.
- Wilton Gregory becomes the Catholic Church’s first Black American cardinal.
- Rashida Jones (not the one who is Quincy Jones’s daughter) becomes MSNBC’s first Black president. MSNBC is hiring Black on-air talent again, like Jonathan Capehart.
- Colin Kaepernick got his own flavour of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream.
- Overseas:
- China: Nike, Apple, Coca-Cola and others oppose a ban on goods made by the forced labour of Uighurs. Wow.
- Hong Kong: democratric activist Joshua Wong was sentenced to 13.5 months in prison.
- Nigeria: Boko Haram killed 43 in the Koshobe Massacre.
- Other:
- The Arecibo Telescope collapsed!
- The Utah monolith was taken down!
- Milestones:
- Sick: Jeff Bridges, Jeremih.
- Dead: Giscard d’Estaing, Eduardo Lourenço, Chuck Yeager, James Flynn (of the Flynn Effect), John le Carré, Charley Pride, Natalie Desselle-Reid (“BAPS”).
- Out: Elliot Page.
If I missed anything big, please tell me in the comments below. Thank you!
– Abagond, 2020.
Sources: mainly Google Images, Trump’s tweets, Democracy Now!, The Economist, Wikipedia, The Root.
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January 20th Trump will be evicted from “The People’s House” but just because he will no longer be POTUS, doesn’t mean he can’t be a threat to America.
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China: Nike, Apple, Coca-Cola and others oppose a ban on goods made by the forced labour of Uighurs. Wow.
Is anyone else wondering if Jim Carrey’s “freedom-friendly” kicks were made by Uighurs?
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/405700-jim-carrey-i-went-out-and-bought-some-freedom-friendly-nikes
Or if Uighurs made the Iphones that now give correct answers when asked “Do black lives matter?” ?
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/09/apple-siri-google-assistant-new-response-to-do-black-lives-matter.html
Big companies publicly endorsing BLM should not be seen as your friend. Wat matters to them is stock value; if that rises by endrsing BLM, they are opportunistic enough to do so. I have no doubt everyone alredy knew that around here.
As for the rest: I wish you all a merry Christmas, and even a better New Year in 2021! 🙂
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“China: Nike, Apple, Coca-Cola and others oppose a ban on goods made by the forced labour of Uighurs. Wow.
Is anyone else wondering if Jim Carrey’s “freedom-friendly” kicks were made by Uighurs?”
Western propaganda. Where’s the evidence? While you’re at it, where are Saddam’s nuclear weapons?
“Saddam emerged from the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-88 possessed of one unshakeable conviction; that he owed his survival, and that of his country, to chemical weapons, without which his forces would have been over-run by the numerically superior Iranians – which was probably true. He also firmly believed that chemical weapons were all that had deterred the US from advancing on Baghdad after retaking Kuwait in 1991 – which was almost certainly untrue…Saddam quickly realized he had under-estimated the resolve of the UN. At this point, in the summer of 1991, he took a disastrous decision – to unilaterally destroy the remaining chemical weapons and ballistic missiles and all of his biological weapons. Anxious to destroy evidence that this undeclared weaponry had ever existed, the regime also destroyed vast amounts of paperwork. Iraqi Presidential Advisor Amir Hamudi Hasan Al Sa’adi later told the Americans this decision was as catastrophic in its consequences for Iraq as the invasion of Kuwait.
The unilateral destruction took place, in secret, between July and December 1991. Pain staking, on the ground investigations by UN inspectors soon revealed to them that Iraq had possessed far more weapons than it had declared. Under pressure, on March 17th 1992 the Iraqis came clean about the unilateral destruction of its remaining chemical weapons and ballistic missiles. But how to prove it? They took inspectors to desert locations where the destruction had taken place…But this time there was total cooperation from the Iraqis, at least in terms of providing access to sites. A small number of missiles that marginally exceeded the UN’s 150 km limit were found and destroyed – but nothing else. Dr. Blix still felt initially the Iraqis could have done more in terms of verifying the destruction of 1991. But from January 2003 they significantly stepped up cooperation and in those final weeks before the invasion he now feels that, realistically, there was nothing else they could have done. ‘They tried their darndest,’ he says.
In a phone conversation on February 20th, 2003 – a month before the invasion – Dr. Blix expressed his doubts to Tony Blair. ‘I said explicitly to him that it would be paradoxical if we were to invade Iraq with 250,000 people and find very little. He said no, no, no they are all convinced it will be there.’
Precisely a month later American and British troops entered Iraq. They found nothing.”
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