I know tRUMP is going to try and do everything he can to affect, control and outright steal the elections....he has done this in every election he has been in...'16, '20, '24....he has always had plans to never leave again.
From Joyce Vance: The Washington Post reported this morning that “Pro-Trump activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a 17-page draft executive order that claims China interfered in the 2020 election as a basis to declare a national emergency that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting.”
Of course, at the time, and with Trump officials in place running cybersecurity, there was a different message. In a Joint Statement, the National Coordinator for Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience CISA, the Election Infrastructure Government Coordinating Council (GCC), and the Election Infrastructure Sector Coordinating Council (SCC), reported that “The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history . … There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised … While we know there are many unfounded claims and opportunities for misinformation about the process of our elections … we have the utmost confidence in the security and integrity of our elections, and you should too.” Chris Krebs, Trump’s Director at CISA, told 60 Minutes that “[Election] Day was quiet. There was no indication or evidence that there was any evidence of hacking or compromise of election systems on, before, or after November 3 … We did a good job. I would do it one thousand times over.”
Beyond that, a 2021 intelligence review concluded that China did not engage in efforts to influence the 2020 election. There were multiple audits and recounts, court rulings, and investigations without any finding of widespread fraud. There was no evidence of coordinated foreign interference.
docrhw Weil, below, lays out the history, but it was, in essence, invoked in Maryland during the Civil War. Lincoln suspended habeas corpus. A lot of this gores back also to Reagan, when Roberts, Alito and other usual supects laid out the unitary executive scenario, where the president, surplants Congress and SCOTUS due to an emergency. They also tried it during GWB.
This is the Blue Flag we all need to heed. Wave it often.
Trump does not need to declare an IEEPA emergency. Use of the statute, regardless of the pretext, is advance warning sufficient to get SCOTUS’ swift attention. Ignoring a SCOTUS ruling is not out of the question, but why bother? We know down to precinct level where the election will be won or lost. MAGA focus just on those precincts with election observers or provocateurs is all Patel, Bondi, and Noem would need to seize voting machines election eve. Those observers witnessed irregularities, right? What about those pesky mail-in ballots? They must be postmarked appropriately, or they won’t be counted. Enter the USPS: postmarking occurs when those folks get around to it. You don’t do this nationwide. You do it by zip code. The zip codes in those special precincts are where the election hangs in the balance.
It’s not what happens before the election; it’s what happens just after.
By now people should be rightly skeptical of Republicans' motives, since they have been the party of crying wolf since forever. Recall all the times they have hyperventilated over commies, Muslims, negroes, Mexicans, you name it. When everybody votes, everybody wins; when oligarchs restrict or suspend voting, only they win.
I’m going to start calling the maga/repubs the Doh!! But Party. It is evident that every time they are presented with facts and statistics they don’t agree with (as in their beliefs are >facts and evidence based studies) the general response from maga/repubs is “Doh!!! But what about (fill in the blanks)??? The list is endless of facts that can be googled and fact-checked from economic data (“trump’s greatest economy “, “ this is the golden age “, “I’ve prevented 11 wars “, “ I’ve fixed the health care system “, etc.), to being documented in the billionaire trump/epstein files. Scott Jennings on CNN is a perfect example- watch him do the Doh!! response every time a rational fact- based statement is presented. He and others of his ilk jump through hoops to distract and distort reality.
Trump has already demonstrated that he can get away with using "national emergencies" to replace governance with autocratic rule. He used a bogus national emergency assertion to justify starting a global tariff war that is undermining our economy. trump's toady Congress let him do it. Their jobs are at risk too, so it is hard to see Johnson et al. interfering with an obvious attempt at election fraud. With the Atty General in Trump's pocket, our criminal justice system is useless to stop the fascism.
Let us not forget Trump's assertion that once elected, Americans would never again have to vote for president. At least Trump is consistent. He is right (very alt-right) on schedule.
At least three times in American history crisis have been manufactured, not to stop elections, but to justify wars, so the precedent to use such things is certainly there. Polk created the rationale for the Mexican War by sending soldiers into disputed land, a ploy that both Lincoln in Congress and Thoreau, who was jailed for refusing to pay a war tax, saw through. The 1898 explosion of the "Maine", almost certainly an accident, was a convenient vehicle for invading Spain's possessions, and I think we all know about the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Incident.
So yes, it is quite possible that Trump wants to manufacture a war, conveniently forgetting that he was the one who canceled Obama's agreement to stop nuclear weapons development there. If so, it's cynical, will kill Americans and many other people, be extremely costly, stir up the world, turn the country upside down, and settle nothing. But none of that means a damn thing to this gang.
IMHO the only issue that hits home with Congressional Republicans is pedophelia. Takes 9 to flip the House.
Yesterday, Trump lost bigly, as the SAVE Act appears to be dead, at least for now.
From Joyce Vance this morning: Trump wanted his party to enact the SAVE Act because it was supposed to make it more difficult for citizens he thinks are Democrats to vote: Its strict ID requirements would have impacted poor people, elderly people, students, married women, and others.
Although Trump pushed hard for its passage, most recently during the State of the Union address, enough Senate Republicans defected to make passage a possibility too remote to pursue. Republicans attempted a “talking filibuster” to get the bill across the finish line, but the procedural unity that would have required failed to materialize. Per Punchbowl News, North Carolina’s Thom Tillis, Utah’s John Curtis, Kentucky’s Mitch McConnell, Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski, and possibly others who weren’t named broke ranks.
Good news, thanks for sharing. My wife thinks that the cracks are beginning to really appear in his support. Maybe once the dam starts to give way it will really let go. They are afraid of how big their losses could be in November, and abandoning a sinking ship may be the best option. Maybe.
"...MAGA-aligned activists are now openly discussing manufacturing or exaggerating a national emergency to justify Trump’s agents in the federal government to interfere in this November’s elections."
I reckon we'll be seeing the regime use every dirty trick you can imagine, and some you can't, to hang onto power. Trump has shown his contempt for the rule of law. He's shown that he operates according to the law of the jungle.
"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time." -Maya Angelou
It’s beginning to look as though we need an opposition party to deal with what has become a deadly domestic enemy. Complaining that “we’re in the minority” isn’t cutting it. SCOTUS has self-castrated with the aid of phony Federalists and John Robert’s Rules of Order (unpublished, remarkably “flexible”). The good people of Minnesota have graced us with an example that can and must be nationalized to resist and defeat that enemy, and re-establish a government of, by, and for the PEOPLE.
We are already divided 39 to 40% of the country are irredeemable ., fanatic cult members. Trumpism is a religion, and there is no more a fanatic than the recent converted.
The most brutal ISIS terrorists were the "Beatles", British converts.
Dishonest county clerks, secretaries of state, attorney generals and governors.....
The question remains, what percentage of the Republicans actually WANT to steal the election? They may be cult members, but they are not all psychopaths.
There could be some people in the mix that do not want to do something that will put them in jeopardy to be prosecuted. It's about finding allies.
After her deposition, Hillary seemed pleased that Comer talked about her election situation and the Russian influence aspect of it. Jack Smith "has the receipts" on that. We need the truth. Thanks Thom and Greg for the education! See you in the streets.
What percentage of Republicans want to steal the election,you ask?
100% Off hand I would say that a prerequisite for being a Republican is to be a psychopath, but even if not, they all are, to a person, afraid of Trump if not career politicians who seek reelection.
there are hundreds of people in jeopardy of serious legal action if Trump loses power, and is not re elected, and for that reason they will do everything possible to cheat and steal the election.
Our only hope is
1. An anti Trump turn out never seen before,
2. An uprising, that rivals France and 1789
3. Bankruptcy of the country, that hits the pocket books of the techbarons, financiers, and oil cabal. It will hurt all of us, but no pain no gain.
We are already mired in a fascist dictatorship, we don't want to see it because it is too scary to behold.
Our favorite pass time is self delusion. We have to stop digging our own grave, and stand up and resist, before it is too late, maybe it already is.
A federal judge has again refused to block Trump’s White House ballroom construction plans. Josh Gerstein reports for POLITICO.
The Trump administration yesterday asked the Supreme Court to allow it to end Temporary Protected Status for thousands of migrants from Syria. Ann E. Marimow reports for the New York Times.
The Justice Department yesterday filed a lawsuit against five additional states, demanding they share election data with the Trump administration. Jacob Wendler reports for POLITICO.
More than 400 judges across the United States have ruled at least 4,421 times since October that the Trump administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully,. He ignores judicial rulings, 4,421 times, if not more.
So when do we acknowledge reality and stop playing the games with their rules.
The time to resist is now, if not now then never.
A beacon of light: also from Just security: Denver Mayor Mike Johnston (D) yesterday announced that federal immigration agents are banned from city property, while also mandating Denver law enforcement to protect protestors. Johnston issued the ban via an executive order. Ryan Mancini reports for The Hill.
Finally a politician with an alligator mouth and an alligator ass. Should this had been Walz, Frey, Pritzker and Newsom, and all other blue states and cities governors and mayors.
I say fight and you claim I say surrender. Talk of an Orwellian world.
Congress can stop it? What Earth do you live on. Mike Johnson's Congress can stop it.
Yeh go ahead and try and pressure Trump boot lickers. Didn't work with the discharge petition did it. Isn't working with anything else is it.
Calling or writing letters to congress is not resisting
Hit them were it hurts, the pocketbook. Boycott them, including CBS, Paramount, CNN,and Disney, and all who advertise on CBS, ABC, CNN
That is where Organ, Putin and Erdogan started by taking over the mediam but go ahead write letter to Republican Congress critters, and expect them to defy the man who has power over them.
I reposted my article from January and once again a little over a month later we are here again. Trump has no power and stop letting them convince you otherwise. This is how he is getting you by the fear mongering. Once again for clarity:
This is about constitutional structure and legal limits that don’t bend, even under emergency declarations.
A president cannot use a national emergency to take control of elections. Several structural barriers prevent it:
Elections are run by the states, not the federal government. This is written directly into the Constitution.
A national emergency cannot override the Constitution. Emergency powers only apply to areas where Congress has already delegated authority.
There is no delegated authority allowing a president to control voting methods, ballot counting, or election administration.
Courts intervene immediately when elections are threatened. Election cases are fast-tracked because voting rights are fundamental.
The military cannot enforce unlawful orders, including interfering with elections.
Congress cannot be bypassed to change election law. Even if Congress were gridlocked, the president cannot legislate by emergency order.
Even if someone drafted such an order, it would be blocked before it ever took effect. Courts have already struck down attempts to alter election procedures without proper authority.
The scenario you read is a political fantasy, not a legal possibility.
Anti-magas are outnumbered. All or most fascist coups have succeeded while being vastly out-numbered. Thinking writing to Dem congressmen to do something, expecting them to waken from their 30-yr political coma, is a bank shot contribution to the magas, to which they laugh at daily. As long as people stand un-united, individually, success of the coup is certain. When people snap to the fact that whining and weeping are merely hand-jobbing yourself emotionally, this coup is certain to succeed. What it would take for election intimidation by ICE thugs to be successfully counntered is to out-number them at each voting site by the hundreds. There are enough people to do this, but it won't happen, lack of being united and the cowardly innards of so many, those many who strive to hide their cowardlinss by writing letters to the should-be-indited empty vessel Schuman, et al. Should this successful coup run its course eventually and fail from certain inner corruptions, as coups are want to do, all the people who were, in the end, cowards, can write to the new morally flaccid sell-out new generation descendants of the current Democratic congressmen and -women--they can weep on their shirts and skirts until they are righteously soaken. The real moral fibre of the victims is proving to be loose threaded and far to weak--the letter writers.
The news re declaring a national emergency to enable Trump to take over national elections is not surprising but deeply troubling. Couple that with Larry & Don Ellison winning a bidding war for CNN's parent company is equally disturbing. Hopefully what's left of the free press can inform the people of the danger we are in. TV commercials from the DNC, DCCC, Hollywood's wealthy, or any organization that values democracy would be helpful. Our country's system of laws and regulations has enabled many people to become wealthy - pay it back - dance with the one that brung ya. I'll see you in the streets on 28 March.
Right on Trump can't have a true election. Heck Texas is almost a blue state!! BUT the "people" do not understand the ramification of Dman's medical diagnoses as a Sociopath. This is a BIRTH DEFECT. His frontal cortex is not connected to the rest of his brain. Then his childhood education at the hands of his father and others made the man we see everyday. Most sociopaths are in prison but his money so far has kept his on the street. Men with his mental problem have NO future without death and ruin. Please get the word out. Get the medical men talking. This is not rocket science. Thanks. Gene N. Family Nurse Practitioner (retired)
This is wishful thinking. There is nobody to stop Trump from doing anything and everything he wants and literally there is nobody left to enforce the law. You can scream and yell about all sorts of things being against the law, but in the end of law that is ignored is a law that is meaningless. Trump routinely breaks the law and as a result that law just gets ignored.
I know tRUMP is going to try and do everything he can to affect, control and outright steal the elections....he has done this in every election he has been in...'16, '20, '24....he has always had plans to never leave again.
From Joyce Vance: The Washington Post reported this morning that “Pro-Trump activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a 17-page draft executive order that claims China interfered in the 2020 election as a basis to declare a national emergency that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting.”
Of course, at the time, and with Trump officials in place running cybersecurity, there was a different message. In a Joint Statement, the National Coordinator for Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience CISA, the Election Infrastructure Government Coordinating Council (GCC), and the Election Infrastructure Sector Coordinating Council (SCC), reported that “The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history . … There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised … While we know there are many unfounded claims and opportunities for misinformation about the process of our elections … we have the utmost confidence in the security and integrity of our elections, and you should too.” Chris Krebs, Trump’s Director at CISA, told 60 Minutes that “[Election] Day was quiet. There was no indication or evidence that there was any evidence of hacking or compromise of election systems on, before, or after November 3 … We did a good job. I would do it one thousand times over.”
Beyond that, a 2021 intelligence review concluded that China did not engage in efforts to influence the 2020 election. There were multiple audits and recounts, court rulings, and investigations without any finding of widespread fraud. There was no evidence of coordinated foreign interference.
We need to preclude invocation of marshal law.
docrhw Weil, below, lays out the history, but it was, in essence, invoked in Maryland during the Civil War. Lincoln suspended habeas corpus. A lot of this gores back also to Reagan, when Roberts, Alito and other usual supects laid out the unitary executive scenario, where the president, surplants Congress and SCOTUS due to an emergency. They also tried it during GWB.
This is the Blue Flag we all need to heed. Wave it often.
Trump does not need to declare an IEEPA emergency. Use of the statute, regardless of the pretext, is advance warning sufficient to get SCOTUS’ swift attention. Ignoring a SCOTUS ruling is not out of the question, but why bother? We know down to precinct level where the election will be won or lost. MAGA focus just on those precincts with election observers or provocateurs is all Patel, Bondi, and Noem would need to seize voting machines election eve. Those observers witnessed irregularities, right? What about those pesky mail-in ballots? They must be postmarked appropriately, or they won’t be counted. Enter the USPS: postmarking occurs when those folks get around to it. You don’t do this nationwide. You do it by zip code. The zip codes in those special precincts are where the election hangs in the balance.
It’s not what happens before the election; it’s what happens just after.
May not be an election...
By now people should be rightly skeptical of Republicans' motives, since they have been the party of crying wolf since forever. Recall all the times they have hyperventilated over commies, Muslims, negroes, Mexicans, you name it. When everybody votes, everybody wins; when oligarchs restrict or suspend voting, only they win.
Fear of “the other” is their only weapon. Have you seen the latest ICE ads!
I’m going to start calling the maga/repubs the Doh!! But Party. It is evident that every time they are presented with facts and statistics they don’t agree with (as in their beliefs are >facts and evidence based studies) the general response from maga/repubs is “Doh!!! But what about (fill in the blanks)??? The list is endless of facts that can be googled and fact-checked from economic data (“trump’s greatest economy “, “ this is the golden age “, “I’ve prevented 11 wars “, “ I’ve fixed the health care system “, etc.), to being documented in the billionaire trump/epstein files. Scott Jennings on CNN is a perfect example- watch him do the Doh!! response every time a rational fact- based statement is presented. He and others of his ilk jump through hoops to distract and distort reality.
Trump has already demonstrated that he can get away with using "national emergencies" to replace governance with autocratic rule. He used a bogus national emergency assertion to justify starting a global tariff war that is undermining our economy. trump's toady Congress let him do it. Their jobs are at risk too, so it is hard to see Johnson et al. interfering with an obvious attempt at election fraud. With the Atty General in Trump's pocket, our criminal justice system is useless to stop the fascism.
Let us not forget Trump's assertion that once elected, Americans would never again have to vote for president. At least Trump is consistent. He is right (very alt-right) on schedule.
Tariffs: If I were Roberts (which I ain't), I'd hold a contempt hearing.
At least three times in American history crisis have been manufactured, not to stop elections, but to justify wars, so the precedent to use such things is certainly there. Polk created the rationale for the Mexican War by sending soldiers into disputed land, a ploy that both Lincoln in Congress and Thoreau, who was jailed for refusing to pay a war tax, saw through. The 1898 explosion of the "Maine", almost certainly an accident, was a convenient vehicle for invading Spain's possessions, and I think we all know about the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Incident.
So yes, it is quite possible that Trump wants to manufacture a war, conveniently forgetting that he was the one who canceled Obama's agreement to stop nuclear weapons development there. If so, it's cynical, will kill Americans and many other people, be extremely costly, stir up the world, turn the country upside down, and settle nothing. But none of that means a damn thing to this gang.
He's over the top on several issues.
IMHO the only issue that hits home with Congressional Republicans is pedophelia. Takes 9 to flip the House.
Yesterday, Trump lost bigly, as the SAVE Act appears to be dead, at least for now.
From Joyce Vance this morning: Trump wanted his party to enact the SAVE Act because it was supposed to make it more difficult for citizens he thinks are Democrats to vote: Its strict ID requirements would have impacted poor people, elderly people, students, married women, and others.
Although Trump pushed hard for its passage, most recently during the State of the Union address, enough Senate Republicans defected to make passage a possibility too remote to pursue. Republicans attempted a “talking filibuster” to get the bill across the finish line, but the procedural unity that would have required failed to materialize. Per Punchbowl News, North Carolina’s Thom Tillis, Utah’s John Curtis, Kentucky’s Mitch McConnell, Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski, and possibly others who weren’t named broke ranks.
It’s a major loss
Good news, thanks for sharing. My wife thinks that the cracks are beginning to really appear in his support. Maybe once the dam starts to give way it will really let go. They are afraid of how big their losses could be in November, and abandoning a sinking ship may be the best option. Maybe.
Thank you for you warning and useful review of the historical context.
BTW, the bsky link at the bottom of the email points to a suspended account.
"...MAGA-aligned activists are now openly discussing manufacturing or exaggerating a national emergency to justify Trump’s agents in the federal government to interfere in this November’s elections."
I reckon we'll be seeing the regime use every dirty trick you can imagine, and some you can't, to hang onto power. Trump has shown his contempt for the rule of law. He's shown that he operates according to the law of the jungle.
"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time." -Maya Angelou
It’s beginning to look as though we need an opposition party to deal with what has become a deadly domestic enemy. Complaining that “we’re in the minority” isn’t cutting it. SCOTUS has self-castrated with the aid of phony Federalists and John Robert’s Rules of Order (unpublished, remarkably “flexible”). The good people of Minnesota have graced us with an example that can and must be nationalized to resist and defeat that enemy, and re-establish a government of, by, and for the PEOPLE.
Divide us and we are conquered.
We are already divided 39 to 40% of the country are irredeemable ., fanatic cult members. Trumpism is a religion, and there is no more a fanatic than the recent converted.
The most brutal ISIS terrorists were the "Beatles", British converts.
DEMOCRATS.
Dishonest county clerks, secretaries of state, attorney generals and governors.....
The question remains, what percentage of the Republicans actually WANT to steal the election? They may be cult members, but they are not all psychopaths.
There could be some people in the mix that do not want to do something that will put them in jeopardy to be prosecuted. It's about finding allies.
After her deposition, Hillary seemed pleased that Comer talked about her election situation and the Russian influence aspect of it. Jack Smith "has the receipts" on that. We need the truth. Thanks Thom and Greg for the education! See you in the streets.
What percentage of Republicans want to steal the election,you ask?
100% Off hand I would say that a prerequisite for being a Republican is to be a psychopath, but even if not, they all are, to a person, afraid of Trump if not career politicians who seek reelection.
there are hundreds of people in jeopardy of serious legal action if Trump loses power, and is not re elected, and for that reason they will do everything possible to cheat and steal the election.
Our only hope is
1. An anti Trump turn out never seen before,
2. An uprising, that rivals France and 1789
3. Bankruptcy of the country, that hits the pocket books of the techbarons, financiers, and oil cabal. It will hurt all of us, but no pain no gain.
We are already mired in a fascist dictatorship, we don't want to see it because it is too scary to behold.
Our favorite pass time is self delusion. We have to stop digging our own grave, and stand up and resist, before it is too late, maybe it already is.
For those who say "It can't happen here:" and all we have to do is move a couple of Republican congress critters, Read this article again.
We cannot rely upon the institutions to protect us. In fact Trump is literally ignoring and working around any court rulings against him
This from Early bird briefing: Justsecurity.org
A federal judge has again refused to block Trump’s White House ballroom construction plans. Josh Gerstein reports for POLITICO.
The Trump administration yesterday asked the Supreme Court to allow it to end Temporary Protected Status for thousands of migrants from Syria. Ann E. Marimow reports for the New York Times.
The Justice Department yesterday filed a lawsuit against five additional states, demanding they share election data with the Trump administration. Jacob Wendler reports for POLITICO.
More than 400 judges across the United States have ruled at least 4,421 times since October that the Trump administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully,. He ignores judicial rulings, 4,421 times, if not more.
So when do we acknowledge reality and stop playing the games with their rules.
The time to resist is now, if not now then never.
A beacon of light: also from Just security: Denver Mayor Mike Johnston (D) yesterday announced that federal immigration agents are banned from city property, while also mandating Denver law enforcement to protect protestors. Johnston issued the ban via an executive order. Ryan Mancini reports for The Hill.
Finally a politician with an alligator mouth and an alligator ass. Should this had been Walz, Frey, Pritzker and Newsom, and all other blue states and cities governors and mayors.
Another surrender message.
Congress can stop it. Epstein is Trump's Achilles heel. Pressure Congressional Republicans.
I say fight and you claim I say surrender. Talk of an Orwellian world.
Congress can stop it? What Earth do you live on. Mike Johnson's Congress can stop it.
Yeh go ahead and try and pressure Trump boot lickers. Didn't work with the discharge petition did it. Isn't working with anything else is it.
Calling or writing letters to congress is not resisting
Hit them were it hurts, the pocketbook. Boycott them, including CBS, Paramount, CNN,and Disney, and all who advertise on CBS, ABC, CNN
That is where Organ, Putin and Erdogan started by taking over the mediam but go ahead write letter to Republican Congress critters, and expect them to defy the man who has power over them.
Expect it and be ready!
Posted by Amy Northern
I reposted my article from January and once again a little over a month later we are here again. Trump has no power and stop letting them convince you otherwise. This is how he is getting you by the fear mongering. Once again for clarity:
This is about constitutional structure and legal limits that don’t bend, even under emergency declarations.
A president cannot use a national emergency to take control of elections. Several structural barriers prevent it:
Elections are run by the states, not the federal government. This is written directly into the Constitution.
A national emergency cannot override the Constitution. Emergency powers only apply to areas where Congress has already delegated authority.
There is no delegated authority allowing a president to control voting methods, ballot counting, or election administration.
Courts intervene immediately when elections are threatened. Election cases are fast-tracked because voting rights are fundamental.
The military cannot enforce unlawful orders, including interfering with elections.
Congress cannot be bypassed to change election law. Even if Congress were gridlocked, the president cannot legislate by emergency order.
Even if someone drafted such an order, it would be blocked before it ever took effect. Courts have already struck down attempts to alter election procedures without proper authority.
The scenario you read is a political fantasy, not a legal possibility.
Trump can in fact deploy ICE as poll watchers, Trump can in fact deploy the FBI to raid election commissions, like he did in Fulton Co. Georgia.
The scenario is not a political fantasy, and it is in fact a legal possibility. Do not be lulled into somunulence.
Better minds than Amy Northern have considered and analyzed the subject.
Be afraid, be very afraid, be ready to take action to counter Trump's action, or you will lose what freedom and liberty you have left.
Anti-magas are outnumbered. All or most fascist coups have succeeded while being vastly out-numbered. Thinking writing to Dem congressmen to do something, expecting them to waken from their 30-yr political coma, is a bank shot contribution to the magas, to which they laugh at daily. As long as people stand un-united, individually, success of the coup is certain. When people snap to the fact that whining and weeping are merely hand-jobbing yourself emotionally, this coup is certain to succeed. What it would take for election intimidation by ICE thugs to be successfully counntered is to out-number them at each voting site by the hundreds. There are enough people to do this, but it won't happen, lack of being united and the cowardly innards of so many, those many who strive to hide their cowardlinss by writing letters to the should-be-indited empty vessel Schuman, et al. Should this successful coup run its course eventually and fail from certain inner corruptions, as coups are want to do, all the people who were, in the end, cowards, can write to the new morally flaccid sell-out new generation descendants of the current Democratic congressmen and -women--they can weep on their shirts and skirts until they are righteously soaken. The real moral fibre of the victims is proving to be loose threaded and far to weak--the letter writers.
The news re declaring a national emergency to enable Trump to take over national elections is not surprising but deeply troubling. Couple that with Larry & Don Ellison winning a bidding war for CNN's parent company is equally disturbing. Hopefully what's left of the free press can inform the people of the danger we are in. TV commercials from the DNC, DCCC, Hollywood's wealthy, or any organization that values democracy would be helpful. Our country's system of laws and regulations has enabled many people to become wealthy - pay it back - dance with the one that brung ya. I'll see you in the streets on 28 March.
Right on Trump can't have a true election. Heck Texas is almost a blue state!! BUT the "people" do not understand the ramification of Dman's medical diagnoses as a Sociopath. This is a BIRTH DEFECT. His frontal cortex is not connected to the rest of his brain. Then his childhood education at the hands of his father and others made the man we see everyday. Most sociopaths are in prison but his money so far has kept his on the street. Men with his mental problem have NO future without death and ruin. Please get the word out. Get the medical men talking. This is not rocket science. Thanks. Gene N. Family Nurse Practitioner (retired)
This is wishful thinking. There is nobody to stop Trump from doing anything and everything he wants and literally there is nobody left to enforce the law. You can scream and yell about all sorts of things being against the law, but in the end of law that is ignored is a law that is meaningless. Trump routinely breaks the law and as a result that law just gets ignored.