Are You Ready For A Cookie Shortage This Holiday Season? 

Are You Ready For A Cookie Shortage This Holiday Season? 
Tyler Durden
Sat, 12/12/2020 – 18:00

Campbell Soup Co., the maker of Pepperidge Farm cookies, warned in an earnings call Wednesday that a cookie shortage could arrive this holiday season. 

Campbell’s CEO Mark Clouse said cookies under the Pepperidge Farms brand, such as Milano and Chessman, face “supply constraints” due to the virus pandemic forcing people to stay home, which in return has driven up demand. 

“This portfolio is unique with proprietary recipes, and therefore we do not outsource production,” Campbell told Bloomberg. “We’ve prioritized increasing supply and are already leveraging capacity opportunities across the network to meet increases in demand and maximize availability.”

Supply constraints are hitting during the holiday season where cookie demand tends to surge. 

Pepperidge Farm cookie demand rose 8.7% in the 13 weeks ending on Nov. 1, Campbell said. The company called cookie consumption this year, “sustained and very strong.”

Data compiled by Top Data shows cookie consumption by Americans soared 25% since the start of the virus pandemic, with one in five Americans eating at least three or more cookies per day. 

Source: Bloomberg

As we’ve previously noted, food shortages have been happening all year as the food supply chain remains stressed. 

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‘Unhinged’ Dem Rep. Urges Pelosi To Block 126 Republicans From Congress For Supporting “Insurrection Or Rebellion”

‘Unhinged’ Dem Rep. Urges Pelosi To Block 126 Republicans From Congress For Supporting “Insurrection Or Rebellion”
Tyler Durden
Sat, 12/12/2020 – 17:30

On Friday, just before the Supreme Court rejected Attorney General Ken Paxton’s (R-Texas) explosive lawsuit challenging the results of the 2020 presidential election in four key swing states, Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr. (D-N.J.) asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to refuse to seat members of the next Congress who support President Donald Trump’s effort to challenge the election results.

Pascrell accused the 126 Republicans who supported the Texas lawsuit of “insurrection or rebellion” – or at least, of supporting “insurrection or rebellion” – against the Constitution.

As Jonathan Turley details below, it appears that Rep. Bill Pascrell (D., NJ) has a serious problem with Republicans going to court.

  We recently discussed Pascrell’s absurd effort to disbar roughly two dozen Republican lawyers for challenging the results of the 2020 election. Now Pascrell is declaring that 120 House Republicans signing a “Friend of the Court brief” (or amicus brief) is tantamount to supporting a rebellion against the United States and that they should be blocked from taking their seats in Congress. I previously denounced Pascrell for his “dangerous form of demagoguery.” This latest call shows the demagoguery has reached a level of utter delusion.   

From the outset of the Texas lawsuit, I stated that it was virtually guaranteed to fail on standing.  It did fail last night. However, courts are where we take cases alleging such injuries. Tens of millions of American believe that the election was not fair, including many Democratic voters.  Roughly 70 percent of Republican voters believe the election was stolen. Such challenges and concerns are brought to the courts where we can have disputes resolved without violence in a constitutional system.

Pascrell has long denounced political critics of destroying the Constitution based on his disagreement with their views.  In the case of President Trump, he called for impeachment in 2019 on such undefined grounds as “disgrac[ing] his office and our nation beyond measure.”

Rather than welcome such review, Democrats have launched a scorched earth campaign, including an abusive campaign of harassment and abuse by the Lincoln Project. These efforts notably began shortly after Biden was declared the presumptive winner of the election and before any challenges were actually ruled upon by the courts.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi has also fueled such reckless rhetoric, declaring that the Republicans are “subverting the Constitution by their reckless and fruitless assault on our democracy which threatens to seriously erode public trust in our most sacred democratic institutions, and to set back our progress on the urgent challenges ahead.”

Pascrell’s move against his colleagues mirrors language in the response of Pennsylvania’s Attorney General Josh Shapiro calling the Texas lawsuit “seditious.”  Seeking judicial review is the antithesis of sedition or rebellion. It is working within our constitutional system for a legal opinion on the merits of a challenge. These litigants have complied with court orders, as has President Trump.

On Twitter, Pascrell declared

Stated simply, the men and women who would act to tear the United States Government apart cannot serve as Members of the Congress. These lawsuits seeking to obliterate public confidence in our democratic system by invalidating the clear results of the 2020 presidential election undoubtedly attack the text and the spirit of the Constitution, which each Member swears to support and defend.” 

Pascrell cites the 14th Amendment to argue that filing with a federal court is an act of rebellion and “trying to overturn a democratic election and install a dictator seems like a pretty clear example of that.”

Pascrell’s call is utterly unhinged from any logical or constitutional foundation. Rebels do not storm the courts with legal filings. They overthrow courts with the rest of the constitutional system.

Those who lack faith or fealty in our constitutional system are those who label litigants “rebels” and legal filings as forms of “rebellion” and “sedition.”

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Manhattan Apartment Rents Dive To Decade Low As Inventory Swells 

Manhattan Apartment Rents Dive To Decade Low As Inventory Swells 
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Sat, 12/12/2020 – 17:00

As expected, given the dynamics of the pandemic driven exodus from New York City, Manhattan’s rental market has witnessed another massive plunge in rents, falling to a ten-year low.

According to Bloomberg, citing a new report from appraiser Miller Samuel Inc. and brokerage Douglas Elliman Real Estate, the borough’s median rental price plunged 22% in November from a year earlier to $2,743 a month. 

In a previous Douglas Elliman and Miller Samuel report, it was noted that more than 15,000 empty rental apartments were in Manhattan in August as the inventory of empty units hit 14-year highs. In October, the inventory was still above 15,000, with a vacancy rate around 6.14%, a record high. 

Downward pressure on rents is expected to continue well into the first quarter of 2021 as restaurant restrictions and nightlife have been muted by strict social distancing restrictions. Employers have yet to call back workers into offices as remote working pushes city dwellers out to the suburbs. 

“It’s still going to take a good part of 2021 to see prices stabilize,”said Jonathan Miller, president of Miller Samuel. “It’s really contingent on how quickly people begin to return to the office.”

The surge in empty apartments was widespread across the borough. Landlords are becoming desperate, offering move-in incentives on 57% of all new Manhattan deals last month. 

So far, the incentives have worked. Newly signed leases soared 30% last month to 4,015 – the biggest November total in more than a decade, Miller said. But again, there’s so much inventory that it hardly made a dent in supply. 

Other boroughs across the metro area in November saw rent declines as well, with landlords offering huge incentives. Brooklyn rents dropped 8.3% to a median of $2,619, while inventory rose to 4,134. In northwest Queens, including the waterfront neighborhood of Long Island City, rents plunged 21% to a median of $2,275.

The virus’ effect on New York City has crushed the rental market if that is residential and or commercial – and it’s not just in the US. 

Apartment prices in some of the world’s wealthiest cities are starting to show the effects of an exodus out of crowded city areas to move to more spacious suburbs. 

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Hunter Biden Subpoenaed Over Burisma, Two Dozen Other Entities

Hunter Biden Subpoenaed Over Burisma, Two Dozen Other Entities
Tyler Durden
Sat, 12/12/2020 – 16:37

Hunter Biden has been subpoenaed by federal investigators over his involvement with at least two dozen entities – including Ukrainian gas company Burisma, according to the Associated Press, citing a ‘person familiar with a Justice Department tax investigation.”

News of the subpoena follows a joint announcement from Hunter and his father Joe Biden’s campaign last week which acknowledged that he was under investigation for tax fraud, with the Washington Post noting that Hunter had yet to be interviewed by the FBI or served with subpoenas.

The subpoena, issued Tuesday, covers a wide swath of Hunter’s taxes and international business dealings – in what could be a serious case against the Biden family (or a serious attempt to put a DOJ ‘bow’ on the ‘matter’). AP notes that it’s unclear if Burisma is a central part of the investigation – despite Joe Biden admitting on tape that he had Ukraine’s chief prosecutor fired during the same period as said investigator, Viktor Shokin, was investigating Burisma’s founder for corruption.

The subpoena also covers Hunter’s Chinese business dealings and other financial transactions. AP also notes that Hunter fell under investigation in 2018 – knowledge which somehow didn’t leak from the DOJ until after the 2020 election.

The probe was launched in 2018, the year before his father announced his candidacy for president. At one point in the investigation, federal prosecutors were also examining potential money laundering offenses, two people familiar with the matter told the AP.

Hunter Biden said he only learned of the investigation on Tuesday.

The younger Biden joined the board of Burisma in 2014, around the time his father, then vice president, was helping conduct the Obama administration’s foreign policy with Ukraine. President Donald Trump and his allies have long argued, without evidence, that Hunter Biden’s work in Ukraine influenced the Obama administration’s policies toward the Eastern European nation. –Associated Press

We’re sure Kamala Harris is genuinely concerned over the outcome of this investigation and hopes it doesn’t result in Joe Biden’s unceremonious exit from the teleprompter scene.

 

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It Is Striking How Similar Wall Street’s Forecasts For 2021 Are

It Is Striking How Similar Wall Street’s Forecasts For 2021 Are
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Sat, 12/12/2020 – 16:30

By Variant Perception

Reflation narratives are becoming consensus, but there is little reason to be contrarian for contrarian’s sake

Strategists are flooding client inboxes with year-ahead forecasts and themes, and it’s striking how similar the arguments are. The common conclusion from these reports is that portfolios should be positioned for an economic recovery.

We are data-led, and there is nothing in our indicators to contradict the recovery view. There is little reason to be contrarian for contrarian’s sake at present, and we will stick to this view as long as the data justifies it.

BAML’s global Fund Manager Survey shows that real money balances are shifting towards equities with cyclical overweights.  At the same time, equity analysts are revising their forecasts upwards for cyclical companies.

Source: Bloomberg, Macrobond and Variant Perception

However, we still think there’s a lot more room until reflation trades become crowded. Money-market assets are very elevated and we see from 2009’s experience that it takes a while for money to be deployed into riskier assets.

Source: Bloomberg, Macrobond and Variant Perception

While today’s recovery may not feel like one, the data is supportive. Our leading indicators are at historic highs.

Source: Bloomberg, Macrobond and Variant Perception

Weekly economic data also remains positive.

Source: Bloomberg, Macrobond and Variant Perception

We have maintained that there is a lot of stimulative potential waiting in the wings, but economic gains can only be realised as virus-related restrictions are eased.  The prospect of an effective vaccine is a massive boost to the recovery path.  As we discussed in a recent report, voluntary restrictions on mobility are a persistent drag on the recovery. So even as government-mandated restrictions remain, a timeline for a vaccine will allow fear to subside and help further lift economic activity.

This is good news for European countries that are going through their second lockdown and have had their recoveries deferred.

Europe will also see support from China’s strong recovery. China often leads eurozone economies, and so China’s recovery ultimately underpins the European recovery.

Source: Bloomberg, Macrobond and Variant Perception

Moreover, as Western demand has fallen, China has filled the vacuum in industrial markets.

Source: Bloomberg, Macrobond and Variant Perception

As Western demand recovers, this will strengthen the reflation dynamics that we usually see at the end of recessions. Copper vs gold is a useful barometer of global reflation that is continuing to recover. The continued rise in term premium is also consistent with the reflationary dynamics in play.

Source: Bloomberg, Macrobond and Variant Perception
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Geologists Reveal Supervolcano May Lurk Beneath Alaska’s Aleutian Islands

Geologists Reveal Supervolcano May Lurk Beneath Alaska’s Aleutian Islands
Tyler Durden
Sat, 12/12/2020 – 16:00

A group of geologists presented their recent findings at the American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) Fall Meeting 2020 conference this week and warned that an archipelago of volcanic islands off Alaska may contain an undiscovered supervolcano similar to Yellowstone and could cause “severe global consequences” if it would ever erupt.

The new report, titled “Multi-Disciplinary Evidence for a Large, Previously Unrecognized Caldera in the Islands of Four Mountains, Central Aleutian Arc, Alaska,” was written by Diana Roman of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, DC. 

Roman said the area in question are islands of the Four Mountain in the central Aleutians are packed with a group of six stratovolcanoes named Carlisle, Cleveland, Herbert, Kagamil, Tana, and Uliaga.

“Stratovolcanoes are what most people envision when they think of a volcano: a steep conical mountain with a banner of clouds and ash waving at the summit. They can have powerful eruptions, like that of Mount St. Helens in 1980, but these are dwarfed by far less frequent caldera-forming eruptions.”

The geologist said the arrangement of the mountains suggest a caldera may exist. 

“Unlike stratovolcanoes, which tend to tap small- to modestly-sized reservoirs of magma, a caldera is created by tapping a huge reservoir in the Earth’s crust. When the reservoir’s pressure exceeds the strength of the crust, gigantic amounts of lava and ash are released in a catastrophic episode of eruption.” 

Roman said, “we’ve been scraping under the couch cushions for data,” referring to the challenge of studying such a remote place. “But everything we look at lines up with a caldera in this region.”

If she is right, this would mean that Alaska has a ticking volcanic time bomb, on par with size of Wyoming’s Yellowstone supervolcano. 

The team noted that more explorations of the Aleutians had to be completed to prove their hypothesis. If they’re correct, it would mean the hidden caldera would be the first in the area. 

“Our hope is to return to the Islands of Four Mountains and look more closely at the seafloor, study the volcanic rocks in greater detail, collect more seismic and gravity data, and sample many more of the geothermal areas,” Roman said.

Furthermore, NASA’s 1989 study titled “Volcanic eruptions and solar activity” indicates that solar flares smashing into the Earth’s atmosphere have the potential to increase volcanic activity. 

“Solar flares are believed to cause changes in atmospheric circulation patterns that abruptly alter the Earth’s spin. The resulting jolt probably triggers small earthquakes which may temporarily relieve some of the stress in volcanic magma chambers, thereby weakening, postponing, or even aborting imminent large eruptions,” NASA said.  

And if readers recall, we noted this week that Sunspot Cycle 25 is already underway and could be the strongest on record. 

Meanwhile, NASA warned in 2019 that a catastrophic supervolcano’s eruption poses a bigger threat to humanity than does an asteroid.

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The Viral Assault On Small Businesses

The Viral Assault On Small Businesses
Tyler Durden
Sat, 12/12/2020 – 15:35

Authored by MN Gordon via EconomicPrism.com,

This year, fear of a deadly pandemic triggered the ruling class to spread authoritarian lockdown orders.  The god of science, like a burning bush, told them to remove their sandals and deliver policies of regression.  A paranoid public was quick to comply.

Humans have been battling viruses since well before the wheel was invented.  According to archaeologists, a fast moving epidemic roughly 5,000 years ago wiped out a prehistoric village in what is today northeastern China.  Dead bodies were stuffed inside a dwelling – the Hamin Mangha – that was later burned down.

Another mass burial, the Miaozigou site, took place about the same time and in the same general area.  Together these discoveries suggest there was a rapid outbreak of an acute infectious disease.  An epidemic ravaged the entire region.

The viral spread of submicroscopic pathogens has the potential to alter the flow of history.  Soldiers returning to the Roman Empire after war against Parthia in 165 AD brought back more than the spoils of conquest.  The Antonine Plague, which is suspected to have been smallpox or measles, claimed an estimated 5 million lives.  The epidemic had devastating consequences throughout the Roman Empire; perhaps bringing forward the demise of Pax Romana.

About 1,350 years later Spanish forces, led by Hernán Cortés, delivered the gift of smallpox as they conquered the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán.  About a decade after, Spanish conquerors spread the plague to the Incas.  An estimated 90 percent of the native population was killed off by the pestilence.  Aztec and Inca civilizations were swiftly wiped off the map and replaced by New Spain.

Court of Sinister

Plague of Athens.  Plague of Cyprian.  Plague of Justinian.  Black death.  Cocoliztli epidemic.  Great plague of London.  Great plague of Marseille.  Russian plague.  Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic.  American polio epidemic.  Spanish flu.  Asian flu.  Swine flu.  West African Ebola epidemic.  Zika virus epidemic.  And many others.

Indeed, plagues come and go.  Yet they can dispense lasting consequences.  Sometimes, as is the case with coronavirus, pandemics have much less to do with the virus than the societal change the virus activates.  Marcus Aurelius, the last of the Five Good Emperors, in the time of the Antonine Plague, penned the following in his Meditations:

“To bear in mind constantly that all of this has happened before.  And will happen again—the same plot from beginning to end, the identical staging.  Produce them in your mind, as you know them from experience or from history: the court of Hadrian, of Antoninus.  The courts of Philip, Alexander, Croesus.  All just the same.  Only the people different.”

Maybe so.  But the plot in 2020 is staged in the court of sinister.  Fear of a deadly pandemic has opened the door for madmen to walk through.  Upon entering the court, they put into practice sinister plans for controlling populations and swelling dependency.

According to state and local governments, constitutional rights are not rights at all; they’re privileges.  And they’ve been suspended in your best interest.  To keep you safe.

Moreover, if you want to work, have extended family over for dinner, worship with a congregation, or walk down the street without a mask, you’re selfish.  You’re not doing your part to stop the spread.

Klaus Schwab, a madman, and founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF) is a man of social science based totalitarian rule.  Individuals that think for themselves and pay their own way in life are not part of his master plan.  He prefers a docile public, subsisting one notch above poverty, that’s fully dependent on a global state.

In his new book, “COVID-19: The Great Reset,” Schwab and his co-author admit that COVID-19 is “one of the least deadly pandemics in the last 2000 years.”  Yet the ruling class has acted like this is the new smallpox.  What gives?

The Viral Assault On Small Businesses

COVID-19 has provided the perfect cover Schwab’s disciples to assault one of America’s remaining expressions of freedom and independence: small businesses.  With lockdowns, politicians get to pick and choose what businesses survive and what businesses don’t.  They get to decide who’s essential and who isn’t.

By and large, corporations, having interests aligned with politicians, are considered essential.  Small businesses aren’t.  Walmart lives.  Dick’s barbershop dies.  McDonald’s survives.  Tito’s Tacos doesn’t.

What’s more, legislation with the supposed intent to stop the spread of coronavirus has devastated small businesses.  Roughly 100,000 small businesses have permanently closed.  At the same time, big corporations are reaping record profits.

One of the more tyrannical laws, which is acting as a viral assault on small businesses, is something warmly named the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA).  Attorney Ash Staub explains:

“The FFCRA, passed in March of this year, requires businesses to provide two weeks of paid sick leave for quarantined employees and/or employees experiencing COVID-19 related symptoms.  It also requires two weeks of paid sick leave at two-thirds the regular rate of pay for employees who need to care for quarantined individuals, such as elderly relatives or spouses.  Furthermore, employers must also provide ten weeks of extended leave, also at two-thirds the regular rate of pay, for employees caring for their children due to school closures.

“The FFCRA only applies to employers with fewer than 500 employees.

“Thus, the FFCRA has imposed financial obligations on small businesses while exempting big businesses.  Small businesses are forced to pay the cost of complying with the FFCRA, while big businesses are not.  Small businesses are at risk of FFCRA-related lawsuits; big businesses are not.  The FFCRA clearly disadvantages small businesses, and expecting small businesses to incur the cost of the FFCRA while their revenue plummets, and their corporate competition profits, is a recipe for widespread small business bankruptcy.”

And for every small business that’s crushed by autocratic rule there’s the corresponding loss of the owner’s dreams and their employee’s livelihoods.  But that’s not all.  It also denotes another step from freedom and liberty towards control and dependency… and into a darker more medieval world.

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“Please Have Keys Made”: Joe Biden Was Chinese Financier’s “Office Mate” According To Hunter Biden Email

“Please Have Keys Made”: Joe Biden Was Chinese Financier’s “Office Mate” According To Hunter Biden Email
Tyler Durden
Sat, 12/12/2020 – 15:10

Joe Biden – who swore throughout the 2020 election that he had ‘no knowledge’ of son Hunter’s business dealings – was described in a 2017 email as “office mates” with a Chinese financier and “emissary” to a PLA-linked (and now bankrupt) Chinese energy conglomerate that the Biden family tried to cash in on according to text, email, and sworn evidence from Hunter Biden’s laptop and multiple whistleblowers.

Before reading further, keep in mind that the FBI and AG Bill Barr knew all of this and sat on it during the 2020 election (and Trump’s impeachment), while Fox News debate moderator Chris Wallace made Biden corruption ‘off limits’ during the first presidential debate.

In a September, 2017 email found on Hunter’s laptop obtained by the Daily Caller, Hunter wrote to the general manager of his former Washington DC office building, asking to have “keys made available” to “office mates” Joe Biden,Jill Biden, Jim Biden and Gongwen Dong – a Chinese financier.

Hunter identified Dong as an “emissary” for the CEFC, the now-defunct Chinese energy conglomerate whose Executive Chairman and affiliates have ties to China’s People’s Liberation Army, according to a report by the Project 2049 Institute – a US-based organization which researches security issues concerning Asia.

Hunter Biden’s request to Cecilia Browning to create office keys for his “office mates” Joe Biden, Jill Biden, Jim Biden and Gongwen Dong. (screenshot via the Daily Caller)

In response, Cecilia E. Browning, general manager of the office building (the House of Sweden) replied that they were “very excited and honored to welcome your new colleagues!” and confirmed that they requested “Four more keys” as well as a “Change of name on the door.”

More via the Caller:

Hunter Biden revealed this week that he has been notified that federal prosecutors in Delaware are investigating his “tax affairs.” Multiple news outlets have reported that the probe is also focused on Biden’s foreign business activities, including with CEFC, which was China’s fourth-largest energy conglomerate before going out of business. Daily Caller

“We have tenants who rent office space, and it is correct that Rosemont Seneca LLC rented an office at House of Sweden between February 2017 — February 2018,” Browning told the Caller in an email, adding “However, please note that we do not share information about current and previous tenants.”

Yet – Biden campaign spokesman Andrew Bates said in October that the former Vice President “has never even considered being involved in business with his family, nor in any overseas business whatsoever. He has never held stock in any such business arrangements nor has any family member or any other person ever held stock for him.”

Cecilia’s email proves that was a lie.

Read the rest of the report here.

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An Epic Commodities Boom Is Coming

An Epic Commodities Boom Is Coming
Tyler Durden
Sat, 12/12/2020 – 14:45

Authored by Adam Taggart via PeakProsperity.com,

“Digitization and the online platform have become too successful. So much so that they have exceeded the capacity of [the world’s] physical structures to deliver to their success.”

Demand for commodities, tangible assets and the companies that mine, manufacture and transport them is about to blow sky-high predicts, Steen Jakobsen, Chief Economist and CIO at Saxo Bank.

He bases this prediction on several factors.

First, the digital world does not exist independently from the physical world. And the massive success of virtual platforms over the past several decades has now reached a point where the infrastructure to source, build and deliver the products they sell is becoming a serious constraint.

Second, governments are becoming more concerned about social equity and stability. Steen predicts a significant increase in federal spending on ‘green’ infrastructure to drive jobs and upgrade capacity for commerce.

Third, Steen believes the market is not pricing in the prior two factors.

So he expects a price-boom to occur once investors wake up to the fact that commodities haven’t been this undervalued relative to other financial assets for at least 50 years:

Put simply, the success of digital platforms is now creating crushing demand for real “stuff”…

Which is why now, more than ever, is the time to partner with a financial advisor who understands both the opportunities and the risks in play, can craft an appropriate portfolio strategy for you given your needs, and apply sound risk management protection where appropriate. Anyone interested in scheduling a free consultation and portfolio review with Mike Preston and John Llodra and their team at New Harbor Financial can do so by clicking here.

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Twitter Blocks Users From Liking, Replying-To Trump Tweets As President Rages Over SCOTUS, Barr, & ‘RINO’ Governors

Twitter Blocks Users From Liking, Replying-To Trump Tweets As President Rages Over SCOTUS, Barr, & ‘RINO’ Governors
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Sat, 12/12/2020 – 14:20

Twitter on Saturday temporarily blocked users from ‘liking’ or replying to tweets made by President Trump, who spent much of the morning on a tirade against the US Supreme Court, Attorney General Bill Barr, and “RINO” (Republican-in-name-only) governors of Georgia and Arizona.

The first Trump tweet censored by Twitter claimed the “people of the United States were cheated, and our Country is disgraced,” following the Supreme Court’s rejection of Texas’s bid to overturn the election results in four states.

Trump continued throughout the morning, calling the election a “disgrace” and asking “Who is a worse governor, @BrianKempGA of Georgia or @dougducey of Arizona??? These are two RINO Republicans who fought against me and the Republican Party harder than any Democrat. They allowed states that I won easily to be stolen. Never forget, vote them out of office!”

Later, Trump noted: “IF Biden gets in, nothing will happen to Hunter or Joe. Barr will do nothing, and the new group of partisan killers coming in will quickly kill it all. Same thing with Durham,” adding “We caught them cold, spying, treason & more (the hard part), but “Justice” took too long. Will be DOA!”

Trump also attacked the Supreme Court again, tweeting that they had “ZERO interest in the merits of the greatest voter fraud ever perpetrated on the United States of America.”

After several hours,Twitter appeared to have reversed course, allowing users to interact with Trump’s tweets.

 

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