If there is anything to be gleaned from the 900 pages of Project 2025, is that there will be no mid term or general in 2026 or 2028.
I assume that my "negativity" is depressing, but I am also realistic. Project 2025 is a blueprint for an autocratic theocracy, he will destroy the administrative state, by filling cabinet positions with inco…
If there is anything to be gleaned from the 900 pages of Project 2025, is that there will be no mid term or general in 2026 or 2028.
I assume that my "negativity" is depressing, but I am also realistic. Project 2025 is a blueprint for an autocratic theocracy, he will destroy the administrative state, by filling cabinet positions with incompetent loyalists who will obey his every command, then he will fire 50,000 or more civil servants and replace them with MAGAts, the will gut the Pentagon and Joint Chief of Staffs and replace them with Dominionists and Loyalists like Gen Charles Flynn, who my guess will be Chairman of the JCS.
Ignore the Posse Commitatus Act, and mobilize the Army against it's own people under somer pretense of martial law.
Since the Democratic National Committee slops at the same trough as the Republican National Committee. I have never seen any difference between the two until 2016, and I again revert to my 2016 opinion.
What can the DNC do, it is powerless against an authoritarian regime, and slops at the same trough as the Republicans and Trump?.
What incentive do corporations and billionaires have, to even let Democrats near the trough., when Trump has filled their stockings and placed all of the presents under the tree that is on their wish list.
Will there even be an election in 2026? If so will it be a real one, with real opposition? Can real opposition even get a message out in an electronic medium that is MAGA controlled.?
Even now there is word that ComCast is going to sell MSNBC and Musk is going to purchase it.
And a Trump judge has interfered in the sale of Alex Jones show to the Onion.
I don't enjoy being a "Debbie Downer", but instead of continuing the pretense that the sun will come up tomorrow, and that we can right the ship of state, acknowledge what Kevin Roberts said of Project 2025, this is the 2nd revolution and it will be bloodless if the left allows it.
We should be planning and organizing a counter revolution, via analog means, since the NSA has a data center in Bluffdale, UT that sniffs every piece of electronic communication transmitted, including substack comments.
Do not look to the Democratic party for leadership, it's already in the process of morphing for the sake of survival, to the party of the loyal opposition, only this time the loyalty is not to the constitution but to the new regime.
Trumps cabinet has already been normalized as pundits and hosts are discussing the qualities and pecadillos of nominees, as if the Senate will have some say over their appointment.
I see this as chatter, mere gossip, a pretense that the institutions still hold.
I wish it was different, I really do
Mr and Mrs Scarborough were the leading edge of a surrender wave, more to follow..
I don't see a downside Lei. I am never depressed,or disappointed, because I never expect better. I can only be joyously and pleasantly surprised.
As regards the future. I am concerned,not scared. Fear immobilizes you. I've been in combat and the last thing that youwant in yourself or anyone in your unit is to be immobilized with fear
I learned the Serenity Prayer in AA, and live by it, that helps.
That doesn't mean that I am a patsy and accept all the feces thrown at me.
But it enables me to slow down and think. If I get emotional, i get irrational and that interferes with rational thinking, especially critical thinking.
I am concerned, very concerned about the future, I can't save anyone other than myself, and not sure about that either, but am making plans and moves that will hopefully help me survive,
But I am not some Jew living in Berlin, who waited until the GESTAPO knocked on their door telling them to pack their bags, they were going on a trip.
I started carrying an Irish Blessing coin in my pocket. I'm not religious, but I am Irish 🍀. This is my last ditch spiritual effort to get through this. I'm not one to pray, but I think at this time, we all need something to hang on to.
William, I share your concerns, but you won't receive a standing ovation in this particular audience for voicing them. Call me a pessimist, but I have a feeling that we're already very far around the bend.
But I have some background in communications (at the physical level) and something you said jumped out at me. You mentioned organizing via non digital modes due to the NSA's unprecidented ongoing surveilance program. I presume you include via the use of the highest encryption standards. How then? I can't think of a single secure mode in this age of massive supercomputers and AI. Obviously this is exactly the wrong place to be discussing the topic 😆 but if you have any suggested reading it would be appreciated just to satisfy my curiosity. Thanks. And soldier on, friend.
No LeMoine. I am the furthermost thing as an expert or even a novice in telecommunications and encryption.. But I am sure that NSA has the ability to break any encryption that is commercially available.
IIRC, NSA has the key to all commercial encryption, by law.
I have no reading suggestions because I wouldn't understand what I would be reading
No worries, William. I'm just an ex nerd that wishes there were a way to communicate privately anymore. Those days have passed us by, unless by way of some titan battle between competing AI interests, and even then, folks on our level wouldn't have access. But, oh wait, I just thought of a possibility: passing matchbooks on a dark street corner with EPROMS scotch taped to the inside. Velcro attachment of these carriers to small drones progralled to fly into the landing gear bay of commercial airliners destined for exotic places. Etc. Think I just got an idea for a technothriller book/movie. Thank you!
(PS: happy to know you appreciate cats. I have an orange tabby who is my very best friend! Happy TG)
I definitely understand your tabby being your best friend.
The idea of passing matchbooks is not so far fetched. Especially when one considers who is going to be in charge of the DNI, and the power of the NSA data center
How does non-digital modes include any encryption standards? He said analog as I recall. I think that means no electronic communication. With the advent of AI, I have heard even the highest encryption standard can be defeated
Summit. All commercial encryption before it is released to the public, has to have an encryption key given to the government. In other words your email is only encrypted to the recipient, and I'm not sure that those who intercept the packets can't read the email.
The problem has nothing to do with encryption Summit, but being locked out after three failed attempts at entering a password or a swipe. That is why iPhones have gone to biometrics like fingerprints , facial or retina.
And TV producers are using biometrics in their plots, holding phones to the face of a dead person, even taking an eye to use in a scanner or using a dead persons thumb. Nothing to do with encryption.
Agree re encryption vs biometric. I think we’re in agreement that encryption alone won’t be sufficient. It will need to be combined with biometric data based on physical or auditory or both characteristics, not susceptible to dead parts being held for the camera.
All attempts to find a Pollyanna view to counter the points in your post were unsuccessful. The underlying point of your message is the main fear. The media and Democratic Party are responding as if they're seeing a normal temporary shift in electoral power. They're behaving like this is just another election and the normal post mortem and regroup will reverse their fortunes.
They, pundits and many voters don't appreciate that the planned installation of the Project 2025 goals locks in reactionary power for the foreseeable future. Once in place, they neutralize the left with a combination of surveillance, media control, reversal of civil rights and the protections ensuring fair elections helped by a willing Supreme Court, and the occasional dispatch of the intelligence and military apparatus to arrest and imprison rivals or worse.
These are not normal times. The politicians poised to take power next year are a Frankenstein monster of Nazis, the KKK, entitled gentry controlling massive wealth, and all are tied together with the zealotry Christian Nationalism reliably provides. If the above sounds scary, good. It's terrifying and we all need to be gaming out how to resist a reactionary Death Star.
The only personality I've seen TV that tells it like it really is. Is Michael Steele, former Chairman of the Pre Trump RNC,, that was on Deadline White House with Nicole Wallace and the face of Nicole was priceless,downcast, chagrin and so eager to change the subject. Most of the Democrat hosts are in denial and making pretense that everything is business as usual, and gossiping about the peccadilloes of Trumps picks.
I thought it was a joke that "word that ComCast is going to sell MSNBC and Musk is going to purchase it." Musk laughed at that... Too much high level journalism o that channel for us to lose it.
Value of MSNBC has fallen some 57% since the election, Joe and Mikka are probably responsible for most of that. Musk is interested but not the only billionaire
If there is anything to be gleaned from the 900 pages of Project 2025, is that there will be no mid term or general in 2026 or 2028.
I assume that my "negativity" is depressing, but I am also realistic. Project 2025 is a blueprint for an autocratic theocracy, he will destroy the administrative state, by filling cabinet positions with incompetent loyalists who will obey his every command, then he will fire 50,000 or more civil servants and replace them with MAGAts, the will gut the Pentagon and Joint Chief of Staffs and replace them with Dominionists and Loyalists like Gen Charles Flynn, who my guess will be Chairman of the JCS.
Ignore the Posse Commitatus Act, and mobilize the Army against it's own people under somer pretense of martial law.
Since the Democratic National Committee slops at the same trough as the Republican National Committee. I have never seen any difference between the two until 2016, and I again revert to my 2016 opinion.
What can the DNC do, it is powerless against an authoritarian regime, and slops at the same trough as the Republicans and Trump?.
What incentive do corporations and billionaires have, to even let Democrats near the trough., when Trump has filled their stockings and placed all of the presents under the tree that is on their wish list.
Will there even be an election in 2026? If so will it be a real one, with real opposition? Can real opposition even get a message out in an electronic medium that is MAGA controlled.?
Even now there is word that ComCast is going to sell MSNBC and Musk is going to purchase it.
And a Trump judge has interfered in the sale of Alex Jones show to the Onion.
I don't enjoy being a "Debbie Downer", but instead of continuing the pretense that the sun will come up tomorrow, and that we can right the ship of state, acknowledge what Kevin Roberts said of Project 2025, this is the 2nd revolution and it will be bloodless if the left allows it.
We should be planning and organizing a counter revolution, via analog means, since the NSA has a data center in Bluffdale, UT that sniffs every piece of electronic communication transmitted, including substack comments.
Do not look to the Democratic party for leadership, it's already in the process of morphing for the sake of survival, to the party of the loyal opposition, only this time the loyalty is not to the constitution but to the new regime.
Trumps cabinet has already been normalized as pundits and hosts are discussing the qualities and pecadillos of nominees, as if the Senate will have some say over their appointment.
I see this as chatter, mere gossip, a pretense that the institutions still hold.
I wish it was different, I really do
Mr and Mrs Scarborough were the leading edge of a surrender wave, more to follow..
Being a realist sure has it's downside.
I agree with everything you said and it scares the crap out of me.
I don't see a downside Lei. I am never depressed,or disappointed, because I never expect better. I can only be joyously and pleasantly surprised.
As regards the future. I am concerned,not scared. Fear immobilizes you. I've been in combat and the last thing that youwant in yourself or anyone in your unit is to be immobilized with fear
I wish I was more like you. I feel like I've been kicked in the gut over and over again.
I learned the Serenity Prayer in AA, and live by it, that helps.
That doesn't mean that I am a patsy and accept all the feces thrown at me.
But it enables me to slow down and think. If I get emotional, i get irrational and that interferes with rational thinking, especially critical thinking.
I am concerned, very concerned about the future, I can't save anyone other than myself, and not sure about that either, but am making plans and moves that will hopefully help me survive,
But I am not some Jew living in Berlin, who waited until the GESTAPO knocked on their door telling them to pack their bags, they were going on a trip.
I started carrying an Irish Blessing coin in my pocket. I'm not religious, but I am Irish 🍀. This is my last ditch spiritual effort to get through this. I'm not one to pray, but I think at this time, we all need something to hang on to.
William, I share your concerns, but you won't receive a standing ovation in this particular audience for voicing them. Call me a pessimist, but I have a feeling that we're already very far around the bend.
But I have some background in communications (at the physical level) and something you said jumped out at me. You mentioned organizing via non digital modes due to the NSA's unprecidented ongoing surveilance program. I presume you include via the use of the highest encryption standards. How then? I can't think of a single secure mode in this age of massive supercomputers and AI. Obviously this is exactly the wrong place to be discussing the topic 😆 but if you have any suggested reading it would be appreciated just to satisfy my curiosity. Thanks. And soldier on, friend.
No LeMoine. I am the furthermost thing as an expert or even a novice in telecommunications and encryption.. But I am sure that NSA has the ability to break any encryption that is commercially available.
IIRC, NSA has the key to all commercial encryption, by law.
I have no reading suggestions because I wouldn't understand what I would be reading
Sorry.
No worries, William. I'm just an ex nerd that wishes there were a way to communicate privately anymore. Those days have passed us by, unless by way of some titan battle between competing AI interests, and even then, folks on our level wouldn't have access. But, oh wait, I just thought of a possibility: passing matchbooks on a dark street corner with EPROMS scotch taped to the inside. Velcro attachment of these carriers to small drones progralled to fly into the landing gear bay of commercial airliners destined for exotic places. Etc. Think I just got an idea for a technothriller book/movie. Thank you!
(PS: happy to know you appreciate cats. I have an orange tabby who is my very best friend! Happy TG)
I definitely understand your tabby being your best friend.
The idea of passing matchbooks is not so far fetched. Especially when one considers who is going to be in charge of the DNI, and the power of the NSA data center
How does non-digital modes include any encryption standards? He said analog as I recall. I think that means no electronic communication. With the advent of AI, I have heard even the highest encryption standard can be defeated
Summit. All commercial encryption before it is released to the public, has to have an encryption key given to the government. In other words your email is only encrypted to the recipient, and I'm not sure that those who intercept the packets can't read the email.
Then why are the police having such a hard time getting into iPhones? This is likely not relevant to the original post.
The problem has nothing to do with encryption Summit, but being locked out after three failed attempts at entering a password or a swipe. That is why iPhones have gone to biometrics like fingerprints , facial or retina.
And TV producers are using biometrics in their plots, holding phones to the face of a dead person, even taking an eye to use in a scanner or using a dead persons thumb. Nothing to do with encryption.
Agree re encryption vs biometric. I think we’re in agreement that encryption alone won’t be sufficient. It will need to be combined with biometric data based on physical or auditory or both characteristics, not susceptible to dead parts being held for the camera.
All attempts to find a Pollyanna view to counter the points in your post were unsuccessful. The underlying point of your message is the main fear. The media and Democratic Party are responding as if they're seeing a normal temporary shift in electoral power. They're behaving like this is just another election and the normal post mortem and regroup will reverse their fortunes.
They, pundits and many voters don't appreciate that the planned installation of the Project 2025 goals locks in reactionary power for the foreseeable future. Once in place, they neutralize the left with a combination of surveillance, media control, reversal of civil rights and the protections ensuring fair elections helped by a willing Supreme Court, and the occasional dispatch of the intelligence and military apparatus to arrest and imprison rivals or worse.
These are not normal times. The politicians poised to take power next year are a Frankenstein monster of Nazis, the KKK, entitled gentry controlling massive wealth, and all are tied together with the zealotry Christian Nationalism reliably provides. If the above sounds scary, good. It's terrifying and we all need to be gaming out how to resist a reactionary Death Star.
The only personality I've seen TV that tells it like it really is. Is Michael Steele, former Chairman of the Pre Trump RNC,, that was on Deadline White House with Nicole Wallace and the face of Nicole was priceless,downcast, chagrin and so eager to change the subject. Most of the Democrat hosts are in denial and making pretense that everything is business as usual, and gossiping about the peccadilloes of Trumps picks.
I thought it was a joke that "word that ComCast is going to sell MSNBC and Musk is going to purchase it." Musk laughed at that... Too much high level journalism o that channel for us to lose it.
Value of MSNBC has fallen some 57% since the election, Joe and Mikka are probably responsible for most of that. Musk is interested but not the only billionaire
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/25/media/elon-musk-msnbc-spinoff-cable/index.html