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am agreeing on this point, and have noted how one o' the difficulties in any effort to prosecute trump in particular for anything criminal is the recognition o' just how erratic and irrational his observed behavior has been. how do you prove intent and coordination for trump, who would appear to frequent act impulsive and even seeming works hard against self interest? the gop is likewise all over the metaphorical map but some o' this is in part 'cause they would appear to be trying to keep up with trump. 'course january 6 weren't orchestrated sole by trump 'cause after four years in office it were clear 45 had no idea how government worked. trump sure as hell didn't concoct a multistep plan to interfere with the electoral college which would rely on complicit state legislators and or the enough chaos at the Capitol to legitimize military intervention. however, is hard to believe 45 were no more than an innocent dupe being carried along by meadows and others. no doubt somebody made a simplified powerpoint presentation for trump which illuminated the important stuff. but yeah, in a criminal trial, is gonna be difficult to prove trump were knowledgeable 'nuff 'bout anything to be part o' a plan, and mere being complicit ain't enough for some criminal charges. HA! Good Fun!

Fact Check-CDC study found that over 75% of COVID-19 deaths in vaccinated people were among those with at least 4 comorbidities posting 'cause am suspecting the folks confused 'bout comorbidities this time is same folks who were confused previous. which segues perfect. so, n95s for cat box cleaning and cloth masks for being around other human beings. okie dokie. ... it's kinda amazing the US managed to get even 60% o' the population vaccinated given the level o' pervasive yutzery. HA! Good Fun!

have seen those, but they is ordinarily emblazoned with stars and stripes and include bullet-sized holes to make mockery o' masking guidelines. never underestimate the capacity o' people to self harm. HA! Good Fun! ps edited failed link

so, not just vandalism and general overexuberance. also https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/17/trump-ally-brandon-straka-information-525272 or can search engine brandon straka. the reason am posting is 'cause it were just revealed how given his level o' cooperating during january 3 interviews, the doj is recommending four months o' home detention and three years o' probation-- is what amounts to a reward for whatever info he chose to share. and finally, 'cause is surprising considerable january 6 relevant news today, raskin has been making the rounds on tv media calling pence a "hero." doesn't seem coincidental as the vp's team has been instrumental in aiding the committee, there is now a serious effort to get pence testimony. the gop plan behind january 6 were far more real than most wanna admit, and pence may speak to such plans as he were kinda a pivotal player. HA! Good Fun!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/in-the-early-days-of-the-pandemic-the-us-government-turned-down-an-offer-to-manufacture-millions-of-n95-masks-in-america/2020/05/09/f76a821e-908a-11ea-a9c0-73b93422d691_story.html It was Jan. 22, a day after the first case of covid-19 was detected in the United States, and orders were pouring into Michael Bowen’s company outside Fort Worth, some from as far away as Hong Kong. Bowen’s medical supply company, Prestige Ameritech, could ramp up production to make an additional 1.7 million N95 masks a week. He viewed the shrinking domestic production of medical masks as a national security issue, though, and he wanted to give the federal government first dibs. “We still have four like-new N95 manufacturing lines,” Bowen wrote that day in an email to top administrators in the Department of Health and Human Services. “Reactivating these machines would be very difficult and very expensive but could be achieved in a dire situation.” But communications over several days with senior agency officials — including Robert Kad­lec, the assistant secretary for preparedness and emergency response — left Bowen with the clear impression that there was little immediate interest in his offer. “I don’t believe we as an government are anywhere near answering those questions for you yet,” Laura Wolf, director of the agency’s Division of Critical Infrastructure Protection, responded that same day. Bowen persisted. “We are the last major domestic mask company,” he wrote on Jan. 23. “My phones are ringing now, so I don’t ‘need’ government business. I’m just letting you know that I can help you preserve our infrastructure if things ever get really bad. I’m a patriot first, businessman second.” In the end, the government did not take Bowen up on his offer. Even today, production lines that could be making more than 7 million masks a month sit dormant. ... Factory equipment that could produce a quarter-million N95 respirator masks a day sits idle at Prestige Ameritech’s factory outside Fort Worth. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/federal-government-spent-millions-to-ramp-up-mask-readiness-but-that-isnt-helping-now/2020/04/03/d62dda5c-74fa-11ea-a9bd-9f8b593300d0_story.html In September 2018, the Trump administration received detailed plans for a new machine designed to churn out millions of protective respirator masks at high speed during a pandemic. The plans, submitted to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) by medical manufacturer O&M Halyard, were the culmination of a venture unveiled almost three years earlier by the Obama administration. But HHS did not proceed with making the machine. The project was one of two N95 mask ventures — totaling $9.8 million — that the federal government embarked on over the past five years to better prepare for pandemics. The other involves the development of reusable masks to replace the single-use variety currently so scarce that medical professionals are using theirs over and over. Expert panels have advised the government for at least 14 years that reusable masks were vital. That effort, like the quick mask machine, has not led to a single new mask for the government’s response. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2020/04/02/us-exports-masks-ppe-china-surged-early-phase-coronavirus/5109747002/ The White House and congressional intelligence committees were briefed on the scope and threat of the coronavirus in January and February, but President Donald Trump has not stopped exports of key medical equipment – a move taken by at least 54 other countries so far. The data show how U.S. manufacturers stepped up production and cleared out inventory to supply protective medical equipment to China for weeks, even as the threat of the coronavirus became clear. The CDC reported its first case in the United States on Jan. 20. Within the next two weeks, the World Health Organization and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services had declared the disease a public health emergency. ... is not so much 'bout the kinda government we got. is not even a party thing. keep in mind it were bush who started a organized effort to get a federal level pandemic response pandemic, and then bush reduced... son reduced father's efforts. post 9/11 and after reading a book about the spanish flu, the younger bush had an epiphany and vast expanded 'pon even his father's efforts. https://www.c-span.org/video/?189676-1/national-strategy-pandemic-preparedness full speech-- worth viewing. 'course obama killed many pandemic programs only to resurrect 'em following the pandemic scares during his administration. is less 'bout government or economics as is individuals making bad decisions over and over. same kinda government and economics and with different individuals under different circumstances, you got folks looking prescient as 'posed to being ignoramuses. sometimes is same individuals making the bad and good decisions. regardless, we coulda'/shoulda' had n95 masks available for americans soon after the pandemic first became recognized. had a plan for such. unlike many nations, we had spent billions in prperation for pandemics, before letting those efforts evaporate. heck, like good americans is s'posed to do, we had developed unique tools to make streamlined ppe possible. unfortunate, once masks became a curiously political issue, then the chance o' government driven efforts to ramp up mask production evaporated. *shrug* too many mistakes repeated. free market and democracy doesn't cause the stoopid which leads to most real problems. people is stoopid and people is ubiquitous. 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https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/13/politics/biden-omicron-medical-team-deployments/index.html HA! Good Fun!

am not understanding complaints about effectiveness o' companion starting builds. well, we understand the complaints, but such concerns are not particular compelling or even vague supportable in point o' fact. the wotr companions also available in the pnp ap have better stats in owlcat's version, and given the massive options for customization in the crpg, the companions somehow is flexible enough to cover and excel at a dizzying array o' potential options. want a druid? lann is a fantastic druid. seelah can bard or combat oracle as well as paladin. obvious if you want companions to be capable o' a broader range o' builds, then they is not gonna be comical optimized for a single build, but the problem is your single idealized build for sosiel is likely different from Gromnir's. so, go ahead and build an optimized companion who works for everybody. try. try and do such w/o adding the ridiculous stat bloat people is simultaneous complaining 'bout for wotr adversaries. sure, have daeran start with a minimum sixteen in every ability and refund his starting feats. the a$$imar's (intentional spelling choice)build options increase considerable, but if you wanna indulge that kinda munchkiny itch, then just mod the companions however you wish. and yeah, you get the succubus so late (relative) that chances are you keep her as a ranger, but we were chuckling when we saw a thread at the owlcat boards where a person were complaining 'bout arueshalae being nerfed or some such. if you can't make an effective sniper outta arueshalae, then you are playing the wrong game. we kinda loathe the arueshalae character, but unless am playing an archer as a main, then is almost self handicapping to keep arue sidelined... which is fine 'cause is other companions who more than adequate fill the void left by an anime inspired cliché. greybor is also a late(ish) acquisition but have never had difficulty making him effective, even if we gotta abandon his silly dwarven waraxe. yeah, is so much trash and junk feats, spells, weapons and archetypes in wotr it is possible to monumental screw your character, which is poor design from our pov, but that is exact what pathfinder is and is what pathfinder fans demand, so... regardless, name a companion and tell us how with owlcat stat distributions and starting feats the character is not good enough to do an unfair run? am guaranteeing am able to build any companion into unfair/endgame viability. if is good enough for unfair, then are optimization complaints viable? if you need your perfect oracle/thug/scaled/fist/paladin/loremaster and is clear you ain't gonna squeeze such outta an existing companion, then craft the build with your main or use the merc option. is not as if you weren't given alternatives to companions who is nevertheless highly effective and capable o' impressive build diversity. we do have complaints 'bout the writing o' the companions, but such is a whole different issue. there is difficulty spikes from optional encounters you have no way o' knowing they is optional. you will feel underpowered at times. there were also a few areas o' the game which were bugged or poor balanced early after release, so it were possible to be relative underpowered at times, especial if you played in september. blackwater, before it were tweaked, were an example o' a curious spike in effective difficulty. every blackwater foe had a massive ac boost and was highly resistant to energy save for electricity. yeah, blackwater enemies had poor wil saves, but is not information you woulda' gleaned before arriving at the location, and even if you were aware, perhaps you hadn't built your nenio to exploit such shortcomings 'cause is literal one freaking area o' the game. bad design. the problem is actual bad encounter design as 'posed to bad companions. oh, and for you arue fans, get a room. HA! Good Fun!

Pressed on his election lies, former President Trump cuts NPR interview short In the interview, Trump repeated a number of false claims about voting systems in the U.S., including that the discredited GOP-led ballot review in Arizona showed evidence of malfeasance — despite the fact that it also reaffirmed Biden's victory. Republican officials in Maricopa County, however, debunked the characterizations of Trump and his allies in a 93-page rebuttal issued last week. "The people who have spent the last year proclaiming our free and fair elections are rigged are lying or delusional," said Bill Gates, the GOP chair of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors. Asked why even Republicans in the state accepted the findings, Trump reverted to an old attack. "Because they're RINOs," he said, "and frankly, a lot of people are questioning that." ... is gonna be more than a few democrats who chuckle at the interview which trump fled 2/3 o' the way through, but am thinking npr were the folks who got taken for a ride. trump, current denied his preferred social media presence, were given the opportunity to peddle his election lies on a national platform. as far as trump's monumental failures during the pandemic, the interview's covid questions were instead all 'bout vaccines and trump is happy to take credit for vaccines, while simultaneous stressing he is 100% opposed to mandates, 'cause liberty or something. is difficult to figure out what trump is saying if you only read transcripts. recognizing trump's borderline aphasia, the listener necessarily is gonna fill in the gaps based on their expectations, and those who lean conservative is gonna hear different than will others. perhaps most obvious were that trump's tactical retreat managed to get him clear o' the interview prior to the predictable questions 'bout the insurrection-- to trump supporters it will not look like 45 dodged insurrection questions 'cause the former President fled before arriving at such troublesome interview territory. cnn, msnbc, washington post and others will justifiably mock trump's performance in the linked npr interview, but am not seeing how this is anything other than a victory for trump, albeit a minor one. agreeing to interview trump remote were the mistake. ... the only way we would agree to interview trump nowadays would be with a female interviewer and would need be live and in-person, so storming off the set would necessarily make him look weak, and we know he hates that kinda thing. why a woman? trump knows he has troubles with educated women voters, regardless o' party affiliation. a woman interviewer willing to press him has a tendency to discombobulate 45. the possibility (likely) o' trump becoming dismissive or adversarial with a woman interviewer is not only different for trump, but the audience perceives different, particularly the more than 50% o' americans o' voting age who is women. by any objective standard, the npr were not some kinda win for trump, but is not 'bout objective, logic or reasonable. the interview were national and it will play well to his base... and you are allowing trump to set himself apart from desantis on the vaccine and covid... which might actual be a positive 'cause is almost unfair that the democrats have a seeming monopoly on self-destructive infighting at the moment. HA! Good Fun!

'ccording to @Achilles, the excess elven notes were removed from the game. HA! Good Fun!

the elven notes quests has same kinda puzzles and even shares same boss... sorta. is no reason nenio's quest and elven notes couldn't have been functional merged, cutting out extraneous filler material from both. regardless, we couldn't help but get the sense enigma were some kinda inside joke directed at crpg completionists. HA! Good Fun! ps am disliking having to miss the goggles of mind control, but owlcat made finding 'em so utter improbable w/o a guide that am s'posing is little difference 'tween finding them and cheating 'em into inventory with a mod. am skipping mods for now, but...

horse is more than good enough to tank. for seelah am personal choosing a wolf or dog at difficulty levels up to and including hard. we manage the not horse by means o' a one level dip into oracle or sylvan sorcerer, but is tough to argue with 20 levels o' paladin for seelah, and maybe you don't wanna multiclass. successful trips become less likely on unfair difficulty, so am suspecting we would go with a boar if we had to do a full unfair run, which we don't plan on doing... evar. have played most boss battles on unfair, and dogs, wolves and horses is fine, but not ideal. speaking o' animal companions, the divine hunter celestial velociraptor animal companion is current benefiting from unlimited uses of smite per day. am assuming all other animal companions for the hunter archetype o' divine hunter benefit similar, but have not tested. regardless, the smite is functional a permanent bonus to attack and damage and while most animal companions receive no real benefit to ab from their smite, the velociraptor is an outlier. am finding almost no need to create mercs save as testing fodder seeing as the joinable companions may be multiclassed to fulfill near 100% o' our possible needs, if not perfectly. skald might be a singular exception as a not court poet skald sees a big benefit from the capstone ability and no companion is gonna reach 20 levels o' skald. gonna eventual play a skald character to take advantage o' the unique benefits, though a merc would make more sense. if we play something after aeon, there is a chance we create a merc skald. HA! Good Fun!

kinda enjoyed rambo. keep in mind we were kinda young when the first rambo movie were released, but particular noteworthy am thinking brian dennehy took an admitted by-the-numbers bad lawman villain role and made it memorable. by the early 80s a substantial portion o' americans had changed their pov regarding vietnam and there were considerable sympathy for veterans o' that conflict, so rambo were playing to sympathetic audiences. as such were good timing for the release and overall rambo was an entertaining film with at least some kinda message you could embrace to make you feel better while you enjoyed a bit o' the ultra-violent. second rambo were our last rambo. writers/directors changed the course o' the franchise and we saw no reason to continue to follow the road they had chosen for the rambo. is not as if stallone and the makers o' rambo owed us anything, but we liked the character from the first movie, so we felt a bit cheated by rambo ii. couldn't forgive those involved for, from our pov, ruining something we had appreciated. HA! Good Fun!

am suspecting is not the first time amentep has heard somebody reflexive rail 'gainst the americanization o' films. HA! Good Fun!

is perhaps obvious, but while the video does describe why the dutch killed an unpopular politician, the explanation for why they ate him is a bit... wanting. "because they hated him?" if we gotta provide a grade, am going with a C... maybe a C-. were interesting, and for sake o' argument am assuming is accurate and well researched, so perhaps a passing grade, but we never did get a satisfactory answer to the initial question posed. our conclusion is the video were entertaining but nevertheless lacking. ... we remain perplexed by the eating. maybe if you are dutch the explanation goes w/o saying... which is another level o' disturbing. HA! Good Fun!

am only following half o' this, but if a class o' persons (race, religion, immigration status, political party) is deprived o' same access to the laws o' a State as is the rest o' the body citizen, and that class is the concentrated population o' your camps, is most assured gonna fall w/i the definition o' a concentration camp. the fact germany made it legal to detain jews, homosexuals, gypsies, etc., does not preclude the application o' concentration camp label. arbitrary denial o' access to legal remedies o' a class o' people is precise one o' the qualities triggering concentration camp label. is more than a little self-serving for a ww2 era german judge to identify the offending nation's deprivation o' legal remedies via legislation, judicial orders or executive action as somehow justifying the denial o' those legal remedies, thus precluding the concentration camp label. no different if australian magistrates proclaim they is following australian law. am understanding why people is repulsed by the near reflexive conflating o' concentration camps with death camps, but a nation's efforts to create obstacles to a class' access to a legal remedy, or in many cases removing altogether meaningful legal recourse such as would be available to the nation's citizenry, is gonna qualify for concentration camp status. identify those in camps as not citizens who have engaged in illegal immigration fails to justify the application o' a different and less protective rule of law. no doubt you will hear people reflexive intone, but its "illegal" immigration. so what? everyday there is at least a few people in australia who is accused o' committing crimes and there is a process which protects those australians from australia-- the rule of law. if refugees, as a class, is getting less consideration from the australian justice system, then is a violation o' rule o' law. if the folks in the class being deprived o' legal remedies is being detained together, the facility will be identified (denotative) as a concentration camp. HA! Good Fun! edit: ps is perhaps not obvious, so am gonna mention, but there is indeed a legit argument for australia refusing to grant immigrants full protection of the law. may feel offensive to some to suggest immigrants don't deserve justice or legal remedies, but as a practical matter, it may not be possible to provide same legal protection to all immigrants. am having no idea what is the current burden the australian Courts face daily trying to grant remedies to its citizens. in the US, there is never enough judges, lawyers and time to grant relief to those seeking justice or civil relief. the current backlog o' immigration cases in many jurisdictions is stretching to near five years. Years. the conditions in US ice facilities need be improved, but the fact is it is currently impossible to provide all those non-citizens who cross borders at non-designated points o' entry or the actual more numerous group who overstay visas or whatever, a day in court anytime soon. hire more judges. hire more lawyers. build more courthouses. these are not practical solutions. like it or not, for the foreseeable future, those non citizens seeking legal remedies to their immigration is not gonna get the full protection o' the rule o' law, and is not necessarily 'cause America is Evhul. however, like it or not, when you house the same class o' people together in the same facilities, particular if conditions is unhealthy, or even inhumane, then concentration camp is gonna be appropriate. don't like the label? solution is to fix the freaking problem. 'course, given the realities, maybe you can live with the problems? ok, but that don't mean the labels is unjustified.

have had the covid vaccine(s) for more than a year, nevertheless... how many believe fox news journalist peter doocy were unaware o' the efficacy o' the vaccine(s) in preventing hospitalizations and deaths before he asked his question? x17 and x20? how many times has the same question been asked and answered? X1000000000? HA! Good Fun!

IF we were to keep the character in question alive, it would not be 'cause o' tankiness, though (unnamed) is likely the best companion for the role. animal companions tank as well or better than any o' the joinable companion characters. leopard and boars is ideal choices if you feel you need a genuine tank. velociraptors is just plain weird as they end up with some o' the best endgame stats o' any o' the critters, they got high dex, and with their 14 starting charisma, if you choose per level boosts to Clever Girl's umd skill (sue us,) your velociraptor will be able to cast any o' the unique personal buffs from scrolls. yes, a wotr velociraptor may use scrolls. and if an animal companion does die, which is unlikely save boss battles or perhaps if you are playing on unfair, then the animal companion is a rest away from being returned to you alive and well. no need to spend diamonds. however, we will offer reason(s) for keeping the one who shall not be named alive: 1) a naïve belief the writers were gonna do... am not gonna delve as doing so requires spoilers, but no... just no. (result: fail) or (result: fail) that said, is a crpg and if you pretzel yourself into rationalizing... continued existence, is surely no worse than having ember use hellfire rays. HA! Good Fun!

am holding out for direct neural interface. anything less is just not worth our time to learn. HA! Good Fun!

cleric animal domain is behaving strange. if you get your animal companion through a cleric domain, the critter is not -3 levels relative to the class which provided the animal. we selected the boon companion feat for sosiel (impossible domain: animal) 'cause it felt like cheating not to, but doing so is unnecessary. HA! Good Fun!

concentration is an accurate description, but people understandably immediate think o' nazi death camps when they hear o' a concentration camp. the cyprus detention camps post ww2 were most assured concentration camps, but given the temporal proximity to the holocaust, people were made uncomfortable with the label. 'course qq over the label is deflection. 'stead o' focusing on whatever wrongs might be happening, the current purveyors o' grievance politics rage 'bout the manifest unfairness o' the label. the real injustice is that some honest mom & pop refugee detention operation is being treated unfair as the "concentration" language used by academics and the liberal media makes refugees take their business elsewheres. no? HA! Good Fun!

we got something similar here in the US, but is doubtful many democrats agree with the conclusions in the video. two US senators, joe manchin and kyrsten sinema, are functional dictating policy for Congress and the white house. unfortunate, our current compromise minority government is in favor o' opening more coal mines and cutting federal food subsidies for children. ... perhaps am being unfair. joe manchin is in favour o' pollution and hungry children. sinema is... well, frankly am admitting to being not 100% certain what sinema is trying to accomplish. HA! Good Fun! ps (edit) information o' the kind @Gorth has no reason to be aware: kyrsten sinema represents arizona, and arizona is a near unique US state in that near 1/3 of registered voters is declared independents. closest thing we got to a three-party state. significance? independents is more likely to champion gridlock than is either republicans or democrats, and am s'posing that courting the independent vote could be sen. sinema's goal. however, am gonna recognize any polls we has seen for sinema has her overall popularity dropping, and she is current more popular with republicans than democrats, though is not as if she is actual popular with republicans either. also, independents do not vote in primaries for democrats, so even if she were sooperfantastic popular with independents (she isn't btw) it wouldn't do her much good unless there is some kinda enormous deep well o' independent campaign money filling her war chests. am admitted perplexed.

gotta admit am fundamental opposed to... am only just finishing act ii with our lg aeon, and our drift towards ng is a minor but genuine issue. HA! Good Fun!

got another beta legacy bug which is endgame kinda trivial but nevertheless annoying. wisdom modifier being applied to ac for those with monk levels near invariable is generated -1. should be +5, then is 4. should be +8, then is 7. equipping armour momentarily will correct the problem, but any area transition or reload will reapply the faulty math. HA! Good Fun!

have difficulty mentally shortening to bart. is bar-timeaus as 'posed to bart-imeaus, yes? am guessing there is curious australian slang for blind, no? might be an option. HA! Good Fun!

am not sure why some people think logical is important. misunderstanding. worse, too many people just don't realize what were at stake. more boardies need read history. 1876 for example. the fate o' the Presidency were decided in a hotel room in february, long after the s'posed certification were s'posed to take place. weren't decided by voters or even by a vote on the floor o' Congress following lengthy debate, and 1876 is what the gop were aiming to repeat. am suspecting is why @Guard Dog is silent on this issue 'cause he had mentioned recent how he had read the history regarding 1876. biden and harris were elected by popular vote, which means nothing from a Constitutional pov. it is states which decide who becomes President. if gop had gotten their way, there woulda' been a commission appointed such as were the case in 1876, and in the present situation, the goal were to have state legislatures, state legislatures which were heavily red leaning btw, review the counts. january 6 lindsey graham were right (mostly) 'bout history. he were right 'bout how dangerous were the insurrection and how misguided were the gop efforts to establish a post election commission to potential overturn the results o' the election. january 9. lindsey graham is heckled in an airport. similar situations happen to other republican law makers. lindsey does a complete 180 following january 9 and is back to being a 100% pro-trump. so, seeing events o' january 6 and january 9, if you are a republican state legislator in wisconsin or arizona, how likely is it that you vote against a state resolution which would declare the inconsistencies o' the 2020 election too significant to ignore? some lawmakers would indeed choose integrity, but recall how @MedicineDan and others excoriated mitt romney for choosing to vote conscience regarding trump. if you is promoting the greenbay sweep solution, all you need is a handful o' state legislatures to invalidate their state electoral slates, 'cause then the 2020 Presidential election is decided by Congress, with each state getting a single vote. is more red states, so... the mob may have been delusional. trump may be unhinged. the thing is, while the plan to overturn the election were illegal, it could have worked. four years o' trump taught many o' you people nothing. "he can't do that." meaningless. "that would be illegal." how many times did trump do anyway? if the Court declared the issue political and stayed silent as they had during all other 2020 fights, then the only way to prevent trump and the gop from doing illegal would be impeachment, and we all saw how that played out a couple times, yes? pretending as if the results o' 2020 had to be rational and reasonable is what is genuine delusional. we had no idea what trump had planned pre or post january 6, but 'cause of four YEARS o' trump violation o' rule o' law and reasonable, we warned for people to be prepared and plan for worst. few listened. 'course we had no idea january 6 would play out the way it did, but we were not genuine surprised something terrible happened neither... and we wouldn't have been shocked if trump had been successful. over and over trump got away with illegal 'cause people claimed trump couldn't or wouldn't do the unthinkable... gop senators wouldn't just go along with trump insanity. proved wrong over and over again, but the lesson so obvious to Gromnir never penetrated. too many americans shrugged with indifference. HA! Good Fun!