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2020 Presidential election Also at 2:24 p.m., knowing the riot was underway and that Vice President Pence was  at the Capitol, President Trump sent this tweet: Mike Pence didn't have have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving states a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth! Evidence shows that the 2:24 p.m. tweet immediately precipitated further violence at the Capitol. January 6 Commitee Report - Summary © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election At some point after 3:05 p.m. that afternoon, President Trump's Chief of Staff — and President Trump himself — were informed that someone was shot. That person was Ashli Babbitt, who was fatally shot at 2:44 p.m. as she and other rioters tried to gain access to the House chamber. There is no indication that this affected the President's state of mind that day, and we found no evidence that the President expressed any remorse that day. January 6 Commitee Report - Summary © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election The Committee's principal concern was that the President actually intended to participate personally in the January 6th efforts at the Capitol, leading the attempt to overturn the election either from inside the House Chamber, from a stage outside the Capitol, or otherwise. The Committee regarded these facts as important because they are relevant to President Trump's intent on January 6th. There is no question from all the evidence assembled that President Trump did have that intent. January 6 Commitee Report - Summary © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election [Deputy Chief of Staff Anthony] Ornato had access to intelligence that suggested violence at the Capitol on January 6th, and it was his job to inform [Chief of Staff Mark] Meadows and Trump of that. Although Ornato told us that he did not recall doing so, the Select Committee found multiple parts of Ornato's testimony questionable.  The Select Committee finds it difficult to believe that neither Meadows nor Ornato told Trump,  as was their job, about the intelligence that was emerging as the January 6th rally approached. … By the time President Trump was preparing to give his speech, he and his advisors knew enough to cancel the rally. And he certainly knew enough to cancel any plans for a march to the Capitol. January 6 Commitee Report - Summary © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Despite recognizing prior to the 2020 election that the Vice President had no power to refuse to count certain electoral votes, [John] Eastman nevertheless drafted memoranda 2 months later proposing that Pence could do exactly that on January 6th — refuse to count certified electoral votes from Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. … Even after Eastman proposed his theories in December and January memoranda he acknowledged in conversations with Vice President Pence's counsel Greg Jacobs that Pence could not lawfully do what his own memornda proposed [by telling Jacobs] “he would lose 9-0 at the Supreme Court.” January 6 Commitee Report - Summary © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election How did President Trump continue to make false allegatons despite all this unequivocal information? Trump sought out those who were not scrupulous with the facts, and were willing to be dishonest. He found a new legal team to assert claims that  his existing advisors and the Justice Department had specifically informed him were false. President Trump's new legal team, headed by Rudolph Giuliani, and their allies ultimately lost  dozens of lawsuits in Federal and state courts. … Indeed, eleven of the judges who ruled against  Donald Trump and his supporters were appointed  by Donald Trump himself. … Not a single witness — nor any combination of witnesses — provided  the Committee with evidence demonstrating that fraud occurred on a scale even remotely close to changing the outcome in any state. January 6 Commitee Report - Summary © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election In addition to this plan to create and transmit fake electoral slates, Donald trump as also personally and substantially involved in multiple efforts to pressure State election officias and State legislatures to alter official lawful election results. January 6 Commitee Report - Summary © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election In the committee's hearings, we presented evidence of what ultimately became a multi-part plan to overturn the 2020 Presidential election. That evidence has led to an overriding and straight-forward conclusion: the central cause of January 6th was one man, former President Donald Trump, who many others followed. None of the events of January 6th would have happened without him. January 6 Commitee Report - Summary © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Intelligence gathered in advance of January 6th did not suggest a conclusion that Antifa or other left-wing groups would likely engage in violent counter-demonstrations or attack Trump supporters on January 6th. Indeed, intelligence from January 5th indicated that some left-wing groups were instructing their members to “stay at home” and not attend on January 6th. Ultimately, none of these groups were involved in any material extent with the attack on the Capitol on January 6th. January 6 Commitee Report - Summary, 14th of 17 “specific findings” © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election No intelligence collection was apparently performed on President Trump's plans for January 6th, nor was there any analysis performed on what he might do to exacerbate potential violence. … And, on January 4, 2021, another rally organizer texted Mike Lindell, the MyPillow CEO, that President Trump would “unexpectedly” call on his supporters to march on the Capitol: This stays only between us … it can not get out about the march because I will be in trouble with the national park service and all the agencies but POTUS is going to just call for it “unexpectedly.” January 6 Commitee Report - Summary © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election  No intelligence community advance analysis predicted exacty how President Trump  would behave; no such analysis recognized the full scoope and extent of the threat to the Capitol on January 6th. January 6 Commitee Report - Summary, from the 15th of 17 “specific findings” © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election The only thing worse would be not charging him. Barbara McQuade, "United States v. Donald Trump," on the failure to criminally charge Trump with conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruction of an official proceeding for pressuring Pence to overturn the election due to fears about potential negative consequences for the country, such as violent protests, civil unrest, loss of life, or an acquittal, which would embolden other domestic wannabe autocrats © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election President Trump did not contact a single  top national security official during the day.  Not at the Pentagon, not at the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, the F.B.I., the Capitol Police Department, or the D.C. Mayor's office. As Vice President Pence has confirmed, President Trump didn't even try to reach his own Vice President to make sure that Pence was safe. President Trump did not order any of his staff to facilitate a law enforcement response of any sort. … Some have suggested that President Trump gave an order to have 10,000 troops ready for January 6th. The Select Committee found no evidence of this. January 6 Commitee Report - Summary © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election The subpoenaed House Member's willful failure to comply with a congressional subpoena reflects discredit on Congress. If left unpunished, such behavior undermines Congress's longstanding power to investigate in support of its lawmaking authority and suggests that Members of Congress may disregard legal obligations that apply to ordinary citizens. January 6 Commitee Report - Summary, referral of members Kevin McCarthy, Jim Jordan, Scott Perry and Andy Biggs to the House Ethics Committee for failure to comply with subpoenas © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Taking all these facts into account, and based on the breadth of the evidence it has accumulated,  the Committee makes the following criminal refer-  rals to the Department of Justice Special Counsel: I. Obstruction of an Official Proceeding  (18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)) … [Trump, Eastman, others] II. Conspiracy to Defraud the United States (18 U.S.C. § 371) … [Trump, Eastman, Chesebro, Giuliani, Meadows, others] III. Conspiracy to make a False Statement (18 U.S.C. §§ 371, 1001) … [witness tampering; Trump, Eastman, Chesebro, fake electors] IV. "Incite," "Assist" or "Aid and Comfort" an Insurrection (18 U.S.C. § 2382) … [Trump] V. Other Conspiracy Statutes (18 U.S.C. §§ 372, 2384) … [individual insurrectionists] VI. Possible violators (18 U.S.C. §§ 1505, 1512)  [Lawyers who may have advised witnesses to lie] January 6 Commitee Report - Summary © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Testimony obtained by the Committee indicates that President Trump knew about the rioters' anger at Vice President Mike Pence, and indicated something to the effect that “Mike [Pence] deserves it.” January 6 Commitee Report - Summary © 2022 Kwiple.com
Environmentalism Under a 1970 environmental policy act, projects take an average of 4.5 years to complete their impact assessments.  That is before litigation and other overruns. The law’s key flaw is that it emphasises the views of local communities over the benefits to millions who live elsewhere. Time and again, experience shows that “community participation” is captured by wealthy retirees and lawyers with time on their hands. The law was written before global warming became the issue. Edward Luce, Financial Times, December 16, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Immigration Immigration is religion’s last, best prayer in England. Muslims and west African Christians are among those bucking the native trends towards secularisation. … The quandary for conservatives could not be more awkward. Is a nation of non-Christian faith (and where Christian, often non-Anglican) better than a godless one? What in the end matters more, a citizenry that looks and sounds familiar, or one that upholds traditional morals? Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, December 16, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Justice Ours is not a system of justice where foot soldiers go to jail and the masterminds and ring keaders get a free pass. Jamie Raskin, in his opening remarks before the final public meeting of the January 6 committee, just before announcing criminal referrals of Donald Trump and other high-ranking Trump adminisgration officials to the Department of Justice for their roles in the January 6 insurrection © 2022 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Count votes in Congress by: 1. Calculating a Member's Proportional Vote (MPV) for each member, as follows: MPV = SPNP / NLRS where: SPNP = State's Percentage of the National Population NLRS = Number of Legislators Representing the State (in that legislature) 2. Totaling “yes” MPVs and “no” MPVs 3. Passing if total MPV is more than 50 OTHERWISE Abolish the Senate © 2019 Kwiple.com
Nimbyism Nimbyism captures both both of the left’s worst traits: it is often those who most loudly profess their principles who are quickest to veto any disruption to their own lives. Edward Luce, Financial Times, December 16, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Post-2020 Senate shituation 15 states (Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming) 2020 population: 40,085,414 Senators: 30 Republicans 1 Senator per 1,336,180 people — 1 state (California) 2020 population: 39,368,075 Senators: 2 Democrats 1 Senator per 19,684,037 people 19,684,037 / 1,336,180 = 14.7, therefore: average 15er's vote is worth nearly 15 times a Californian's, a Californian's vote is worth less than 7% of an average 15er's — 1 state (Wyoming) 2020 population = 582,328, therefore: 1 Senator per 291,164 Wyomians, a Wyomian's vote is worth 68 times a Californian's, a Californian's vote is worth 1.5% of a Wyomian's  © 2021 Kwiple.com
Selfie I'm a workhorse, not a show horse. Nancy Pelosi © 2022 Kwiple.com
Selfie It was a saying in an African hospital: “When one day I die and happily go to meet my maker, he will say to me, ‘Show me your wounds.’ And if I have no wounds to show him, he will say, ‘Was nothing worth fighting for?’” I’m proud of my wounds. Nancy Pelosi, recounting something she read while on an overseas trip © 2022 Kwiple.com
Selfie Some people count sheep at night. I count votes. Nancy Pelosi © 2022 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Every president in our history has defended this orderly transfer of authority except one. January 6, 2021, was the first time an American president refused his constitutional duty to to transfer power peacefully to the next. … Among the most shameful of this committee's findings was that President Trump sat in the dining room of the Oval Office, watching the violent riot at the Capitol on television. For hours, he would not issue a public statement instructing his supporters to disperse and leave the Capitol. … In addition to being unlawful, as described in our report, this was an utter moral failure and a clear dereliction of duty. … No man who would behave that way at that moment in time can ever serve in any office of authority in our nation again. He is unfit for any office. Donald Trump portrayed by Liz Cheney © 2022 Kwiple.com
 
Ukraine Financial assistance is also critically important, and I would like to thank you, thank you very much, thank you for both financial packages you have already provided us with and the ones you may be willing to decide on. Your money is not charity. It’s an investment in the global security and democracy that we handle in the most responsible way. Volodymyr Zelensky, December 21, 2022, speech to Joint Session of Congresss © 2022 Kwiple.com