DJT should never have been allowed to run for office. Thank the far right Justices on the SCourt for allowing him to skirt around the clarity of the fourteenth amendment.
They are clearly in this ongoing coup , by Trump , ordered by Putin .
There is still potentially an option for the Senate to try to block him. Although SCOTUS rejected the attempt of Colorado and two other states to block him, the decision leaves the congressional option available. It would require a 2/3 vote.
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
It's very disturbing to say this all adds up. Many on the right seem eager for civil war, and such a division in America plays right into Putins plans.
When I was in Vietnam in 1966-1967 we caught "confederates" stealing selector swithches to make weapons automatic for an upcoming race war. I came home, serverd a few months in the Army of the occupation of the south and was discharged in Jan. 1968.
Within a few months, called up because we had a race war.
It's obvious that Russia has taken advantage of the situation. We were attacked by psy ops. This is the third time they tried. This time they won. Putin expects a quid pro quo from Trump. But for that, we would have won.
Yes Daniel, but also were it not for the hundreds of thousands of Muslims in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennyslvania who either did not vote for Kamala or voted for Trump, those 44 electoral votes those states possessed would have gone to Kamala and added to the 226 electoral votes that she did win, would have won the election.
Trump's pro-Israel Cabinet Picks Upset Muslims Who Voted for Him
'Trump won because of us,' said one of the founders of Muslims for Trump, 'and we're not happy with his Secretary of State pick and others'
Prediction, under Trump, the Yuan will replace the dollar as the world's reserve currency.
America will be a satrapy of Russia. The status of America will decline to that of a lesser developed nation and if the Right proceeds with it's pogrom against "liberals", it will be a failed state.
The productivity that made this country and economic power house will disappear because of a demoralized, disincentive population ruled by intolerant, self righteous, theocratic, bigots.
Trump will replace military leadership with religious extremists and sycophants, a demoralized and defunded military will encourage religious zealots and expansionist autocrats, especially in the mid east and Africa, and rather than universal peace, which so many hope for, the world has moved that much closer to nuclear armeggedon.
The only way a demoralized MAGA America can maintain it's military posture is via a heavy hand, Putin style, but then a military posture has to be backed up by an economy, and that economy will be i shambles, as it has been exploted by the oligarchs.
The Islamic forces arrayed against the Jewish state of Israel will have no constraints, no counter vailing power, and they will attempt to sieze possession of Islams third most holy site, the Haram al Sharif or Dome of the Rock and al Aqsa Mosque. Israel, facing annihilation, will have no choice but to resort to their last line of defense. their nukes.
I saw that there was a scroll in the right hand of the one sitting on the throne. The scroll was written on the inside and the outside, and it was sealed with seven seals. I saw a strong angel announcing in a loud voice, “Does anybody deserve to open the scroll, to undo its seals?” And nobody in heaven or on the earth or under the earth could open the scroll or look at it. 4 I burst into tears because it seemed that there was nobody who was worthy to open the scroll or look inside it. One of the elders, however, spoke to me. “Don’t cry,” he said. “Look! The lion from the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has won the victory! He can open the scroll and its seven seals.”
Then I saw in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, a lamb. It was standing there as though it had been slaughtered; it had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth. The lamb came up and took the scroll from the right hand of the one who was sitting on the throne.
Worthy is the lamb!
When he took the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down in front of the lamb. They each had a harp, and they each had golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of God’s holy people. They sing a new song, which goes like this:
“You are worthy to take the scroll;
you are worthy to open its seals;
for you were slaughtered and with your own blood
you purchased a people for God,
from every tribe and tongue,
from every people and nation
and made them a kingdom and priests to our God
and they will reign on the earth.”
As I watched, I heard the voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures and the elders. Their number was ten thousand times ten thousand, thousands upon thousands, 12 and they were declaring in full voice,
“The slaughtered lamb has now deserved
to take the riches and the power,
to take the wisdom, strength and honor,
to take the glory, and the blessing.”
Then I heard every creature in heaven, on the earth, under the earth, and in the sea, and everything that is in them, saying,
“To the One on the throne and the lamb
be blessing and honor and glory
and power forever and ever!”
“Amen!” cried the four living creatures. And the elders fell down and worshiped.
The difference between myself and that dude the Chrisitians call John, that wrote that hocky puck in a book called Revelations that he was high on shrooms, whereas I have read Project 2025, listened to Trump, believe him especially based on his choice of cabinet and advisors.
John pulled his shit out of his pyscillibin addled ass, I pull my shit out of what is laid out in plain site.
Many scholars say it was not written until at least about 309 CE, and "John" didn't write it. Emperor Constatine inspired it to placate, consolidate and convert pagans...... May come from Mithra...pagan Persian god. The earliest complete copy of the text is preserved in a fourth century manuscript, Codex Sinaiticus. Its text, however, differs in significant ways from the one in the NT. Three centuries removed from the “original” first century composition.
Yes Daniel. I'm quite aware. I am also aware that the earliest surviving text of the NT differ dramatically from the fiction published as the Holy Bible, as does the text of the Torah and TeNACH.
I have a copy, or had, I sent it to my son, of the Ferrar Fenton bible, "translated from the originally, Chaldean, Hebrew and Greek".
Ill give you one example. In Leviticus it says, English translation, that a woman who lies with a beast, it is abominable, in Hebrew it says Incest, not abominable. The translators were evidently not willing to make an official statement that women were beasts.
I did check the Hebrew and indeed it does say incest.
Jesus did not say Do unto other as you would have them do unto you", He said do unto others as they do unto you.
This whole good god, bad god thing in the NT was injected by a Manichean priest, who "saw the light" when he watched Pope Leo the Great, thrown Manicheans to the lions with all of the glee formerly reserved for Christians.
Lucifer was the name given to Venus as it preceded the sun. Venus appears in the sky as a morning star and an evening star, as the morning star it was worshiped as the bringer of light, or Lucifer.
This Manichean priest cum Christian, was named by the cult of Rome, the great one, Augustine, and he worked with Jerome who was given credit for producing the first written edition of the Bible, the Latin Vulgate, which as you know was cobbled together from assorted manuscripts, many written by learned and wealthy Romans like Piso.
Clues come from exhortations like render unto Caesar (pay your taxes and worship your god and your reward comes in the hereafter when you are gone. As well as"a rich man has as much chance of going to heaven as a camel crawling though the eye of a needle", Again mind your social status, don't envy the rich, because your reward will be in heaven.
Every despot since has used that since to maintain his wealth and status.
Jean Cohen Cauvin Calvin, turned that upside down, with the orthodox doctrine of pre destination, that one is born favored of god, or not and the way to distinguish the favored is by their wealth and social status.
No longer where the poor and downtrodden consigned to a life of misery, now they could, with gods blessing, attain wealth by any means necessary.
Maybe we need a Civil Separation is a better approach with same outcome. Unless we can get through to many who were just indoctrinated by Russia. This won't get better without dealing with media and blocking fake news and foreign invasion in the Internet.
There are three states that have made preparations for Trump, WA CA, IL, I would hope that they secede but since the Executive can federalize the national guard, and there are military bases in all states. Secession would be a risky enterprise.
Ah. I am thinking the reverse, if course Dems would need to have the presidency. The few very Maga states should secede, or forced out. We who want the Co station a d rule of law deserve to Keep the country, not seceded. Those who don't want it should leave, and we should let that be easier. States need to qualify to remain in the USA.
There are 26 solid MAGA states DC Washington, perhaps 28 in all, they are the majority, they also control the Congress, Executive, Judiciary and the 4th estate. There is no motivation for them to secede. The government from now on will be what they say it is. The constitution is just a quaint document.
We will be ruled by the Book of Laws, Leviticus, which means book of Laws,
Mike Johnson has already told us, Biblical law will rule the land, not the laws of men.
The radical right see everything as a battle, and treat it as such; the left and center see things as a debate. The right is talking up civil war because they can't win the debate. They despise the "so-called experts" and brand them elites for the sin of having the better of every argument.
The Right had a massive orgasm on Nov 5th, because they finally and indubitably owned the libs, but there is a cost to owning the libs and it is $4,000 a person, and that is given that every thing stays the same, But it won't, the cost will be more than $4,000, and all of those seniors and folk dependent on the government will wake up and realize, all too late, that they fucked up, and as the social and economic effects of this pyrrhic victory finally set in, even the MAGAts will realize, all too late, they screwed themselves.
The social, economic, military effects of Project 2025, will show just how stupid these people are. Perhaps they know, and don't care.
When you can't be the big fish in a big pond, you can be the big fish in a little pond, and all Project 2025 does is drain the pond, and gets rid of the little fish, but they don't realize that they are reducing the oxygen supply and hazarding themselves.
Is anyone surprised by this news? I'm not. I'm sure that the worst of the worst that will be pardoned will become Commanders/Generals in trump's Revenge Army. They are considered "seasoned" veterans & heroes. Also, keep in mind, we have been told over & over that in many, many cases prison can radicalize and/or increase criminal behavior. I'm guessing that these folks in jail are not taking advantage of any type of rehabilitation. Why would they? They are heroes, right?
I can see it now, armed thugs with their AR-15s & ammunition crisscrossed across their chest like the "banditos' of old, stomping around like the SS, actually they'll be more like the Brown Shirts. The SS uniforms were designed by Hugo Boss, that's why they looked so professional as they carried out their horrific deeds. And if we think that we can rely on the police to come to our aid I wouldn't put money on that. There are many police officials & Sheriffs that support trump. And since the constitution will be ignored, especially the 4th amendment we can expect those knocks on the door followed by breaking down the doors to get at whoever the enemy within du jour is at the time.
I hope we're ready for it. But since it's the right that have most of the weapons I have my doubt how we'll be able to fight this no matter how noble our calling.
If Biden who has the power does not stop this takeover if nothing else does, the he commits a crime of Desertion as the commander in chief. He must be the backup plan.
America under Donald J Trump will breed a deepening alliance between the State and unofficial volunteers of vigilante violence. These proxy enforcers - from established groups to lone freaks the likes of Kyle Shittenhouse - are yet another example of how plausible deniability has become one of our society's great cancers.
Ah yes I remember Chuck Todd on MSNBC calling Bernie Sanders supporters "Brownshirts" during the 2016 election. Propaganda knows no bounds. What color shirts will they be handing to Biden, Harris and their cabinet of ghouls for their genocidal support of theocratic fascism and silencing voices in its name here at home?
Boris can't help himself Sir Okie, he has a one string guitar, what he really champions is his beloved Putin. Putin won, Boris is ecstatic, and now he wants to turn on Biden and Harris for revenge.
I lived in north Idaho in the late 70's and early 80's and at that time the Aryan Nations had a strong presence. They didn't do much except march around with their flags while being led by Richard Butler who established the Church of Jesus Christ Christian. It's not surprising that hate groups align themselves with religion as a cloak of respectability. In 2000 they were hit with law suits that crippled the organization. Now there is a resurgence of far right groups in that state and they are being helped by members of the GOP, but even with that help I don't expect that the groups will hit critical mass that will enable them to cause harm. There are too many splinter groups within the far right wing and will not solidify under one leader. I hope I'm right.
The recent verdict in the murderous vigilante bastard Daniel Penny case, believe it or not, is a product of the very noxious atmosphere that you articulate.
All the exhortationto resist comes up against this apocalyptic nearly predictive scenario. We are so far past the time that anything can be done to stop what is coming.
True Peter, the train is barreling down on us, and we are not yet tied to the tracks, the ability to mount a resistance is hampered by competing interests and ideologies, and by trolls like Dr Barry O Kaufman who enabled Trump. And oh the electronic sniffing of communications by the NSA data center at Bluffdale, UT
Of all the assassins and wannabe assassins of U.S. Presidents, only Thomas Crooks apparently wanted to maintain a moderate, civil system of government. The others all were political fanatics (e.g. Booth) or mentally ill (e.g. Guiteau). Today, nice guys who support a civil government are not True Believers like yesteryear's people who would put their lives on the line for a grand cause. Trumpsters are pretty much the same way. Modern life is too comfortable for almost any citizen to risk it in physically-dangerous political action for a cause.
If tRump is going to pardon violent criminals who have been prosecuted and jailed, I am feeling more and more confident in calling for Biden to issue a blanket pardon to all immigrants in this country who broke the federal law of entering the country and being and working in the country. That would royally screw up his opening salvo.
It just seems to me that we are witnessing the total dismantling of our democratic Republic. What I can ot get my head around is just why so many US citizens and worse spineless Republican Senators support this government takeover by an admitted wantabe dictator.
Is it legal to threaten senators if they dare to do their job? If it is legal, hope is lost already. If it isn’t legal, there’s hope the law will be applied, but if it isn’t applied, hope is lost again. Sure it’s risky to refuse fascism but allowing it is riskier still. Are there plans for a mass ani-fascist demo on 6 Jan?
Are you kidding? Republican senators are already threatened for doing their jobs, by their superiors, especially the likes of Mitch McConnell - which is why very few Democratic initiatives or bills ever ever have had any support.
Rep Jaypal said she and 60 progressives didn’t take corporate money. She should add DONT TAKE AIPAC MONEY!! For example the representative from Orange county California who is a Harvard grad and a fighter on many fronts takes money from AIPAC. She lost my support
DJT should never have been allowed to run for office. Thank the far right Justices on the SCourt for allowing him to skirt around the clarity of the fourteenth amendment.
They are clearly in this ongoing coup , by Trump , ordered by Putin .
Yes. With special thanks to Merrick Garland.
There is still potentially an option for the Senate to try to block him. Although SCOTUS rejected the attempt of Colorado and two other states to block him, the decision leaves the congressional option available. It would require a 2/3 vote.
I don't expect this to happen, but.......https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-719_19m2.pdfs
Section 3
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
It's very disturbing to say this all adds up. Many on the right seem eager for civil war, and such a division in America plays right into Putins plans.
Like Yogi would say, deja vu all over again.
When I was in Vietnam in 1966-1967 we caught "confederates" stealing selector swithches to make weapons automatic for an upcoming race war. I came home, serverd a few months in the Army of the occupation of the south and was discharged in Jan. 1968.
Within a few months, called up because we had a race war.
It's obvious that Russia has taken advantage of the situation. We were attacked by psy ops. This is the third time they tried. This time they won. Putin expects a quid pro quo from Trump. But for that, we would have won.
Yes Daniel, but also were it not for the hundreds of thousands of Muslims in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennyslvania who either did not vote for Kamala or voted for Trump, those 44 electoral votes those states possessed would have gone to Kamala and added to the 226 electoral votes that she did win, would have won the election.
Trump's pro-Israel Cabinet Picks Upset Muslims Who Voted for Him
'Trump won because of us,' said one of the founders of Muslims for Trump, 'and we're not happy with his Secretary of State pick and others'
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2024-11-17/ty-article/trumps-pro-israel-cabinet-picks-upset-muslims-who-voted-for-him/00000193-39b4-dcd3-a3b7-bdbfa2250000?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=Content&utm_campaign=daily-brief&utm_content=ef36d27152
Prediction, under Trump, the Yuan will replace the dollar as the world's reserve currency.
America will be a satrapy of Russia. The status of America will decline to that of a lesser developed nation and if the Right proceeds with it's pogrom against "liberals", it will be a failed state.
The productivity that made this country and economic power house will disappear because of a demoralized, disincentive population ruled by intolerant, self righteous, theocratic, bigots.
Trump will replace military leadership with religious extremists and sycophants, a demoralized and defunded military will encourage religious zealots and expansionist autocrats, especially in the mid east and Africa, and rather than universal peace, which so many hope for, the world has moved that much closer to nuclear armeggedon.
The only way a demoralized MAGA America can maintain it's military posture is via a heavy hand, Putin style, but then a military posture has to be backed up by an economy, and that economy will be i shambles, as it has been exploted by the oligarchs.
The Islamic forces arrayed against the Jewish state of Israel will have no constraints, no counter vailing power, and they will attempt to sieze possession of Islams third most holy site, the Haram al Sharif or Dome of the Rock and al Aqsa Mosque. Israel, facing annihilation, will have no choice but to resort to their last line of defense. their nukes.
On Nov 5, 2024 the dog caught the car.
One of the military institutions DT would favor is the U.S. Air Force Academy and it's evidently numerous theocratic staff.
Revelations as depicted by Wm Farrar.
I'm not supposed to know this but....
I saw that there was a scroll in the right hand of the one sitting on the throne. The scroll was written on the inside and the outside, and it was sealed with seven seals. I saw a strong angel announcing in a loud voice, “Does anybody deserve to open the scroll, to undo its seals?” And nobody in heaven or on the earth or under the earth could open the scroll or look at it. 4 I burst into tears because it seemed that there was nobody who was worthy to open the scroll or look inside it. One of the elders, however, spoke to me. “Don’t cry,” he said. “Look! The lion from the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has won the victory! He can open the scroll and its seven seals.”
Then I saw in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, a lamb. It was standing there as though it had been slaughtered; it had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth. The lamb came up and took the scroll from the right hand of the one who was sitting on the throne.
Worthy is the lamb!
When he took the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down in front of the lamb. They each had a harp, and they each had golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of God’s holy people. They sing a new song, which goes like this:
“You are worthy to take the scroll;
you are worthy to open its seals;
for you were slaughtered and with your own blood
you purchased a people for God,
from every tribe and tongue,
from every people and nation
and made them a kingdom and priests to our God
and they will reign on the earth.”
As I watched, I heard the voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures and the elders. Their number was ten thousand times ten thousand, thousands upon thousands, 12 and they were declaring in full voice,
“The slaughtered lamb has now deserved
to take the riches and the power,
to take the wisdom, strength and honor,
to take the glory, and the blessing.”
Then I heard every creature in heaven, on the earth, under the earth, and in the sea, and everything that is in them, saying,
“To the One on the throne and the lamb
be blessing and honor and glory
and power forever and ever!”
“Amen!” cried the four living creatures. And the elders fell down and worshiped.
Let us all sing in Esparanto......
LOL. Iguess I own that Daniel.
The difference between myself and that dude the Chrisitians call John, that wrote that hocky puck in a book called Revelations that he was high on shrooms, whereas I have read Project 2025, listened to Trump, believe him especially based on his choice of cabinet and advisors.
John pulled his shit out of his pyscillibin addled ass, I pull my shit out of what is laid out in plain site.
Many scholars say it was not written until at least about 309 CE, and "John" didn't write it. Emperor Constatine inspired it to placate, consolidate and convert pagans...... May come from Mithra...pagan Persian god. The earliest complete copy of the text is preserved in a fourth century manuscript, Codex Sinaiticus. Its text, however, differs in significant ways from the one in the NT. Three centuries removed from the “original” first century composition.
Yes Daniel. I'm quite aware. I am also aware that the earliest surviving text of the NT differ dramatically from the fiction published as the Holy Bible, as does the text of the Torah and TeNACH.
I have a copy, or had, I sent it to my son, of the Ferrar Fenton bible, "translated from the originally, Chaldean, Hebrew and Greek".
Ill give you one example. In Leviticus it says, English translation, that a woman who lies with a beast, it is abominable, in Hebrew it says Incest, not abominable. The translators were evidently not willing to make an official statement that women were beasts.
I did check the Hebrew and indeed it does say incest.
Jesus did not say Do unto other as you would have them do unto you", He said do unto others as they do unto you.
This whole good god, bad god thing in the NT was injected by a Manichean priest, who "saw the light" when he watched Pope Leo the Great, thrown Manicheans to the lions with all of the glee formerly reserved for Christians.
Lucifer was the name given to Venus as it preceded the sun. Venus appears in the sky as a morning star and an evening star, as the morning star it was worshiped as the bringer of light, or Lucifer.
This Manichean priest cum Christian, was named by the cult of Rome, the great one, Augustine, and he worked with Jerome who was given credit for producing the first written edition of the Bible, the Latin Vulgate, which as you know was cobbled together from assorted manuscripts, many written by learned and wealthy Romans like Piso.
Clues come from exhortations like render unto Caesar (pay your taxes and worship your god and your reward comes in the hereafter when you are gone. As well as"a rich man has as much chance of going to heaven as a camel crawling though the eye of a needle", Again mind your social status, don't envy the rich, because your reward will be in heaven.
Every despot since has used that since to maintain his wealth and status.
Jean Cohen Cauvin Calvin, turned that upside down, with the orthodox doctrine of pre destination, that one is born favored of god, or not and the way to distinguish the favored is by their wealth and social status.
No longer where the poor and downtrodden consigned to a life of misery, now they could, with gods blessing, attain wealth by any means necessary.
Which of course leads to the prosperity doctrine.
Maybe we need a Civil Separation is a better approach with same outcome. Unless we can get through to many who were just indoctrinated by Russia. This won't get better without dealing with media and blocking fake news and foreign invasion in the Internet.
There are three states that have made preparations for Trump, WA CA, IL, I would hope that they secede but since the Executive can federalize the national guard, and there are military bases in all states. Secession would be a risky enterprise.
Ah. I am thinking the reverse, if course Dems would need to have the presidency. The few very Maga states should secede, or forced out. We who want the Co station a d rule of law deserve to Keep the country, not seceded. Those who don't want it should leave, and we should let that be easier. States need to qualify to remain in the USA.
There are 26 solid MAGA states DC Washington, perhaps 28 in all, they are the majority, they also control the Congress, Executive, Judiciary and the 4th estate. There is no motivation for them to secede. The government from now on will be what they say it is. The constitution is just a quaint document.
We will be ruled by the Book of Laws, Leviticus, which means book of Laws,
Mike Johnson has already told us, Biblical law will rule the land, not the laws of men.
The radical right see everything as a battle, and treat it as such; the left and center see things as a debate. The right is talking up civil war because they can't win the debate. They despise the "so-called experts" and brand them elites for the sin of having the better of every argument.
The Right had a massive orgasm on Nov 5th, because they finally and indubitably owned the libs, but there is a cost to owning the libs and it is $4,000 a person, and that is given that every thing stays the same, But it won't, the cost will be more than $4,000, and all of those seniors and folk dependent on the government will wake up and realize, all too late, that they fucked up, and as the social and economic effects of this pyrrhic victory finally set in, even the MAGAts will realize, all too late, they screwed themselves.
The social, economic, military effects of Project 2025, will show just how stupid these people are. Perhaps they know, and don't care.
When you can't be the big fish in a big pond, you can be the big fish in a little pond, and all Project 2025 does is drain the pond, and gets rid of the little fish, but they don't realize that they are reducing the oxygen supply and hazarding themselves.
Is anyone surprised by this news? I'm not. I'm sure that the worst of the worst that will be pardoned will become Commanders/Generals in trump's Revenge Army. They are considered "seasoned" veterans & heroes. Also, keep in mind, we have been told over & over that in many, many cases prison can radicalize and/or increase criminal behavior. I'm guessing that these folks in jail are not taking advantage of any type of rehabilitation. Why would they? They are heroes, right?
I can see it now, armed thugs with their AR-15s & ammunition crisscrossed across their chest like the "banditos' of old, stomping around like the SS, actually they'll be more like the Brown Shirts. The SS uniforms were designed by Hugo Boss, that's why they looked so professional as they carried out their horrific deeds. And if we think that we can rely on the police to come to our aid I wouldn't put money on that. There are many police officials & Sheriffs that support trump. And since the constitution will be ignored, especially the 4th amendment we can expect those knocks on the door followed by breaking down the doors to get at whoever the enemy within du jour is at the time.
I hope we're ready for it. But since it's the right that have most of the weapons I have my doubt how we'll be able to fight this no matter how noble our calling.
If Biden who has the power does not stop this takeover if nothing else does, the he commits a crime of Desertion as the commander in chief. He must be the backup plan.
No doubt about it.
America under Donald J Trump will breed a deepening alliance between the State and unofficial volunteers of vigilante violence. These proxy enforcers - from established groups to lone freaks the likes of Kyle Shittenhouse - are yet another example of how plausible deniability has become one of our society's great cancers.
Trump has compassion for no one, so he intends to release the Jan 6 prisoners to use them for a nefarious purpose.
Question:
Will Donald be at the jail exit on Jan. 21st, 2025, handing out Black (Italy), Brown (Germany), or either Silver or Red (US) shirts?
Ah yes I remember Chuck Todd on MSNBC calling Bernie Sanders supporters "Brownshirts" during the 2016 election. Propaganda knows no bounds. What color shirts will they be handing to Biden, Harris and their cabinet of ghouls for their genocidal support of theocratic fascism and silencing voices in its name here at home?
Damn Boris you just can't let go, can you.
Biden and Harris are not the problem, why don't you kvetch over Woodrow Wilson.
We are way past Biden and Harris, and support for Israel. Wait till Bibi's friend and sponsor Trump takes office, then you can kvetch over "genocide"
Give it a rest asshole.
". . . genocidal support of theocratic fascism and silencing voices in its name here at home?"
There is no need to bring Israel into this.
Boris can't help himself Sir Okie, he has a one string guitar, what he really champions is his beloved Putin. Putin won, Boris is ecstatic, and now he wants to turn on Biden and Harris for revenge.
Sir Okie Doke: Maybe they will be transported to another place, another era that matches their level of thinking and doing.
I lived in north Idaho in the late 70's and early 80's and at that time the Aryan Nations had a strong presence. They didn't do much except march around with their flags while being led by Richard Butler who established the Church of Jesus Christ Christian. It's not surprising that hate groups align themselves with religion as a cloak of respectability. In 2000 they were hit with law suits that crippled the organization. Now there is a resurgence of far right groups in that state and they are being helped by members of the GOP, but even with that help I don't expect that the groups will hit critical mass that will enable them to cause harm. There are too many splinter groups within the far right wing and will not solidify under one leader. I hope I'm right.
The recent verdict in the murderous vigilante bastard Daniel Penny case, believe it or not, is a product of the very noxious atmosphere that you articulate.
And the shape of things to come.
Operative word "atmosphere."
"Jury nullification" didn't protect Trump in his NY felony case. I'm suprised they didn't offer him ARD.
Alvin Bragg: same prosecutor in both.
Gawd bless 'Merika!
The greatest goddamned nation of Earth!
Said the alien.
All the exhortationto resist comes up against this apocalyptic nearly predictive scenario. We are so far past the time that anything can be done to stop what is coming.
Peter F Rose: It will stop when business people have property and profits destroyed. Whatever is done has to effect the money supply of the rich.
True Peter, the train is barreling down on us, and we are not yet tied to the tracks, the ability to mount a resistance is hampered by competing interests and ideologies, and by trolls like Dr Barry O Kaufman who enabled Trump. And oh the electronic sniffing of communications by the NSA data center at Bluffdale, UT
As Trump's toxic, unqualified nominees gain Republican acceptance, the insupportable disaster of his assuming office becomes clearer.
How UTTERLY dreadful America's Right Wing is very coming under DJT!
It's always been a dreadful mob in search of a leader with enough money to make it happen. Now they have Musk too.
Of all the assassins and wannabe assassins of U.S. Presidents, only Thomas Crooks apparently wanted to maintain a moderate, civil system of government. The others all were political fanatics (e.g. Booth) or mentally ill (e.g. Guiteau). Today, nice guys who support a civil government are not True Believers like yesteryear's people who would put their lives on the line for a grand cause. Trumpsters are pretty much the same way. Modern life is too comfortable for almost any citizen to risk it in physically-dangerous political action for a cause.
Apparently, Luigi Mangione would disagree with you.
Thomas Matthew Crooks, is an engima, IIRC from his social media posts, he was a Right Winger, as was that other dude caught at Mar a Lago.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-thomas-crooks-fbi-assassination-attempt-secret-service-1932300 shows conflicting accounts of his posts, with alleged right-wing stuff from 5 years ago. More recent posts indicate pro-Biden.
If tRump is going to pardon violent criminals who have been prosecuted and jailed, I am feeling more and more confident in calling for Biden to issue a blanket pardon to all immigrants in this country who broke the federal law of entering the country and being and working in the country. That would royally screw up his opening salvo.
It just seems to me that we are witnessing the total dismantling of our democratic Republic. What I can ot get my head around is just why so many US citizens and worse spineless Republican Senators support this government takeover by an admitted wantabe dictator.
Is it legal to threaten senators if they dare to do their job? If it is legal, hope is lost already. If it isn’t legal, there’s hope the law will be applied, but if it isn’t applied, hope is lost again. Sure it’s risky to refuse fascism but allowing it is riskier still. Are there plans for a mass ani-fascist demo on 6 Jan?
Are you kidding? Republican senators are already threatened for doing their jobs, by their superiors, especially the likes of Mitch McConnell - which is why very few Democratic initiatives or bills ever ever have had any support.
Rep Jaypal said she and 60 progressives didn’t take corporate money. She should add DONT TAKE AIPAC MONEY!! For example the representative from Orange county California who is a Harvard grad and a fighter on many fronts takes money from AIPAC. She lost my support