Monday Reads

 From last month is this article by Jane Mayer explaining why Trump could not afford to lose the election, which of course he lost anyway.

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There is no point trying to engage with the Trump diehards, for they are indeed lost.

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Most people eligible for the $600 stimulus may receive it as early as next week.

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Even Pat Robertson acknowledges reality:





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These politicians are traitors to the United States, and Joe Biden can't do one thing about it until January 20.


The effort is doomed to fail but would create a spectacle that Senate GOP leaders want to avoid. And if a House member and a senator object to six states' results, it would lead to at least 12 hours of debate, in addition to the time for casting votes on each of the motions, potentially prolonging the fight until the next day.
The White House meeting, Brooks said, was to discuss "how bad the voter fraud and election theft" was in November, even though such claims have been rejected by election officials and courts across the country.
Brooks said the meeting was attended by a "double digit" number of lawmakers, but he wouldn't say if senators were part of the meeting. Brooks said the group had a separate meeting with Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani. And the Alabama congressman also said he saw at the White House Sidney Powell, the attorney whose conspiracies about the election have prompted Trump's interest. But, he said, they didn't meet with her.
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Who in the House voted for the stimulus package?  You can find out here.






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