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.
Leave it to a Trump loyalist to declare that the election HE “won” had absolutely no cheating! Krebs is a typical Trump bad guy. Biden had his security clearance pulled. This is from WH before it became propaganda web site.👇🏼
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.
Meanwhile, U.S. personnel in Israel are told to evacuate as tensions with Iran escalated rapidly. Other allied nations are issuing similar warnings to their citizens. The USS Gerald Ford was being repositioned toward the region, and conversations inside military circles were already raising a stark concern: the United States is not equipped for a prolonged engagement.
“As they made their public case this week for another American military campaign against Iran, President Trump and his aides asserted that Iran has restarted its nuclear program, has enough available nuclear material to build a bomb within days, and is developing long-range missiles that will soon be capable of hitting the United States.
All three of these claims are either false or unproven.”
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.
Daniel,Robert 's doesn't have the balls to do that. Do you think the SC who has given the "Nazi"a by so many times is having 2nd thoughts. I'm, afraid the 21 concentration camps are going to hold more that hispanics,82% of whom have no political record.
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.
Kathy,don't you think that is a rather mild term to describe what Trump is doing. He is following the Hitler playbook. To refer to him as anything other than a n" Nazi" is a massive mistake. I know it is hard for so many who post here to express some real outrage does not surprise me. DEMS have been know as "pussies" for yrs,that is why the DEMS are aways playing defense. The "Nazi" are like the schoolyard bully,find a target who refuses to fight back :"beat him up every day" then tell all your friend what it feels like to be a bully.
My comment was referring to the right wing sane washing, white washing takeover of media. Believe me, I have posted in the past on multiple sites that the billionaire pedophile/trump regime are fascist POS and are deconstructing democracy and the rule of law. As a senior citizen, I believe ,sadly, that I have lived through the height of our American democracy experience (while also witnessing some of the worst things in my lifetime ie. JFK, MLK assassinations, Vietnam War, WMD lies getting us into wars and others, the rampant racism). I hope I live long enough to witness two things: trump’s funeral, and a resurgence of sanity and accountability, but who knows if current day Americans are up to fighting for their civil rights, or succumbing to the new age rulers-the Epstein class.
Kathy,thanks for your response. I'm afraid you're right about living through the height of the Democratic experience,although JFK,MLK ,Vietnam were all avoidable if it were not for bigotry and the war making millions during the Vietnam conflict. THe war machine today is making billions with the Ukraine war and the ethnic cleansing in Gaza.
Let us not forget the American people elected a " felon" someone convicted of felony 34 times. What other country in the civilized world elects a "felon" My feeling is that americans are so connected to their iphones,TicTok and other social media they will just succumb to the "nazi" rule.
As you know,it is not just Stephen Miller,R Voight,Peter Thiel,Hegseth,and the rest of the : Nazis" that are complicit in this takeover. It is big tech,Microsoft,Apple,Google,Amazon,Nvidia( especially Nvidia) that are lending their resources and legal teams to Trump to take down democracy.
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.
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.
William,you are 100% right about boycotts but weak americans just cannot do it . Its to much work,it's to inconvenient ,it won't work and there must be at least another 20 or 30 excuses. Europeans do it very effectively especially with Tesla. If ask an American to boycott Tesla,you would get this hazy look,like why,who is Elan Musk. The stupidity level is so profound,there is little hope. As long as a great majority of americans have their cellphone,everything is good.
Daniel,I think your posts on this website are helpful and I know you put a lot of work into them. However I don't agree that Epstein is Trump's achilles heal. If Trump were found guilty of raping 10 15 yr girls,his supporters would not defect. Who are they,Wall Street,CNBC,the billionaires who support and have contributed to the campaigns,the ballroom. The massive support he gets from religion 57% cathloics,38% Jews,100% white Christion Natiionalists,neo confederates,the Technonazis,the Neo Nazis movement and all those brain dead americans who cannot tell you what day it is.
Daniel,agree some politcians will. Of the groups that support Trump,that I mentioned,who will defect if he is found guility,I don't thinkany. They will just brush it off as " Boys will be Boys" .
Thanks again William, especially agree its now or never. Frankly I'm sick of doing my bit, calling & writing pols, donating time & money and seeing minimal results. Where in the (expletive) are push back TV commercials from the Dem party and organizations that support democracy? I see Trump and GOP ads, ads for Melania's movie and the hateful scat recruiting ICE agents. Drizzle drazzle drizzle drome ...
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.
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)
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.
"...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 was clear months ago this is where we are headed. MN was practice in crown control and killing followed by the leadership blaming those killed. They will attempt to control the outcome with everything they have, but if it comes up short, they will declare a disaster or national emergency of somekind and reject the election results. These people are not going anywhere. They have the power and we don't. They will not give up the power for anything. They will kill many many more people before they give up anything. Be careful Thom, they sure don't like people speaking against them. We are proud of what you do. Thank you, peter
Being careful is a waste ot time if Trump gains complete control, after rigged 2028 elections, as he will go after everyone who has ever opposed him, anyone who even could oppose him.Will a world dominated by fascist America, Russia, China, India spreading to Europe and Canda, would it be worth living in?
The only consolation is he is going to be 80, and if we the people keep doing protest against him, sooner or later it all comes to an end. Just like Hitler, and his cronies they all fell right along with him.
It's unlikely that people calling their Senators will stop some version of the plan to create and declare an emergency, although everyone everywhere should be picking up the phone right now. Our best hope may be the end of Putin's regime and of his war suddenly. His removal could cause a major shift and leave Trump hanging out there without his primary booster. I am somewhat hopeful that it could happen.
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.
William,the only thing we can do nearterm is to hope the No Kings rally on March 28 brings out more than in the past.8 million @ the last but the #s do not tell the real story.76 million voted for Harris,8 million @ the rallies,leaves 67 million DEMS who do not particpate. There are legitimate reasons some do not particpate,physical impairments,not near rallies but that does apply to all 67 million. There is absolutly no reason why 20-25 million cannot get the rallies.If not now,when?
Hope is an anesthetic, hopium is hope and opium, it dulls the senses, encourages passivity, acceptance of your fate. I think of those millions of Jews, who had hope when they climbed aboard the box cars.
The guy who said in 1933, that Hitler fellow, can't be that bad.
The poor immigrant who shows up for a hearing with a judge, only to be whisked away by masked and armed thugs., and those poor victims who couldn't believe that they would be killed by there fellow citizens, for exercising their first amendment right.
How about the forlorn hope that the Mueller report would bring down Trump, or the forlorn Hope that the Documents case would bring down Trump, or the E Jean Carroll case, or the tax fraud case, or his impeachments, and now we are being told to believe that if, and that is a big if, Pam Bondi will betray her master and release the whole unredacated Epstein files, we will bring down Trump
At some point you realize that you are chasing bait at the end of a string, and every time you get close it is pulled away.. because the last thing that THEY want, the thing that THEY fire, is pissed off populace. and I mean French 1789 sty;e [ossed pff. So they string us along
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.
Interesting! Thx
Leave it to a Trump loyalist to declare that the election HE “won” had absolutely no cheating! Krebs is a typical Trump bad guy. Biden had his security clearance pulled. This is from WH before it became propaganda web site.👇🏼
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/addressing-risks-from-chris-krebs-and-government-censorship/
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...
I hope those nuts don't bomb a US city or do something desperately horrible to create an emergency.
Woudn't put it past them.
Meanwhile, U.S. personnel in Israel are told to evacuate as tensions with Iran escalated rapidly. Other allied nations are issuing similar warnings to their citizens. The USS Gerald Ford was being repositioned toward the region, and conversations inside military circles were already raising a stark concern: the United States is not equipped for a prolonged engagement.
Governance by pretext
NYT
“As they made their public case this week for another American military campaign against Iran, President Trump and his aides asserted that Iran has restarted its nuclear program, has enough available nuclear material to build a bomb within days, and is developing long-range missiles that will soon be capable of hitting the United States.
All three of these claims are either false or unproven.”
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.
Daniel,Robert 's doesn't have the balls to do that. Do you think the SC who has given the "Nazi"a by so many times is having 2nd thoughts. I'm, afraid the 21 concentration camps are going to hold more that hispanics,82% of whom have no political record.
I said "if."
From my perspective, Roberts has surrendered the role of the judiciary, Article III of the Constitution, to Trump as unitary executiove.
The way it's supposed to work, Trump should have to "show cause" (a term of art) why he is not in contempt, to a reasonable degree of probability.
Trump would have the right to "purge" himself of the contempt.
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.
Kathy,don't you think that is a rather mild term to describe what Trump is doing. He is following the Hitler playbook. To refer to him as anything other than a n" Nazi" is a massive mistake. I know it is hard for so many who post here to express some real outrage does not surprise me. DEMS have been know as "pussies" for yrs,that is why the DEMS are aways playing defense. The "Nazi" are like the schoolyard bully,find a target who refuses to fight back :"beat him up every day" then tell all your friend what it feels like to be a bully.
My comment was referring to the right wing sane washing, white washing takeover of media. Believe me, I have posted in the past on multiple sites that the billionaire pedophile/trump regime are fascist POS and are deconstructing democracy and the rule of law. As a senior citizen, I believe ,sadly, that I have lived through the height of our American democracy experience (while also witnessing some of the worst things in my lifetime ie. JFK, MLK assassinations, Vietnam War, WMD lies getting us into wars and others, the rampant racism). I hope I live long enough to witness two things: trump’s funeral, and a resurgence of sanity and accountability, but who knows if current day Americans are up to fighting for their civil rights, or succumbing to the new age rulers-the Epstein class.
Kathy,thanks for your response. I'm afraid you're right about living through the height of the Democratic experience,although JFK,MLK ,Vietnam were all avoidable if it were not for bigotry and the war making millions during the Vietnam conflict. THe war machine today is making billions with the Ukraine war and the ethnic cleansing in Gaza.
Let us not forget the American people elected a " felon" someone convicted of felony 34 times. What other country in the civilized world elects a "felon" My feeling is that americans are so connected to their iphones,TicTok and other social media they will just succumb to the "nazi" rule.
As you know,it is not just Stephen Miller,R Voight,Peter Thiel,Hegseth,and the rest of the : Nazis" that are complicit in this takeover. It is big tech,Microsoft,Apple,Google,Amazon,Nvidia( especially Nvidia) that are lending their resources and legal teams to Trump to take down democracy.
Fear of “the other” is their only weapon. Have you seen the latest ICE ads!
Thanks Larry yes have seen the ICE ads - sick crap. How about some ads from the Dems and organizations that support democracy!
Larry,where were the ICE ads posted?
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.
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.
William,you are 100% right about boycotts but weak americans just cannot do it . Its to much work,it's to inconvenient ,it won't work and there must be at least another 20 or 30 excuses. Europeans do it very effectively especially with Tesla. If ask an American to boycott Tesla,you would get this hazy look,like why,who is Elan Musk. The stupidity level is so profound,there is little hope. As long as a great majority of americans have their cellphone,everything is good.
And as D.S. told me. I wasn't issued a hair shirt. IOW if there is any discomfort or pain involved, forget about it
It is easier to go over to the Dark Side like Luke's father.
When you cut off your nose, let us know....
A non sequitur
Daniel,I think your posts on this website are helpful and I know you put a lot of work into them. However I don't agree that Epstein is Trump's achilles heal. If Trump were found guilty of raping 10 15 yr girls,his supporters would not defect. Who are they,Wall Street,CNBC,the billionaires who support and have contributed to the campaigns,the ballroom. The massive support he gets from religion 57% cathloics,38% Jews,100% white Christion Natiionalists,neo confederates,the Technonazis,the Neo Nazis movement and all those brain dead americans who cannot tell you what day it is.
That's surrender.
Daniel,I don't view it as surrender.Of the groups who support Trump,who will defect if he is found guility of raping 15 yr girls?
We only need a few Congressional Republicans. These are politcians. They do not want to be treated as criminals. Got to know how to deal with them.
Daniel,agree some politcians will. Of the groups that support Trump,that I mentioned,who will defect if he is found guility,I don't thinkany. They will just brush it off as " Boys will be Boys" .
Thanks again William, especially agree its now or never. Frankly I'm sick of doing my bit, calling & writing pols, donating time & money and seeing minimal results. Where in the (expletive) are push back TV commercials from the Dem party and organizations that support democracy? I see Trump and GOP ads, ads for Melania's movie and the hateful scat recruiting ICE agents. Drizzle drazzle drizzle drome ...
That's not what he says. He dismisses stuff that can actually work. His way or the highway.
Some of us have experience. Soviet Union. Warsaw convention. Rule of law.
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.
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)
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.
Divide DEMOCRATS.
"...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 was clear months ago this is where we are headed. MN was practice in crown control and killing followed by the leadership blaming those killed. They will attempt to control the outcome with everything they have, but if it comes up short, they will declare a disaster or national emergency of somekind and reject the election results. These people are not going anywhere. They have the power and we don't. They will not give up the power for anything. They will kill many many more people before they give up anything. Be careful Thom, they sure don't like people speaking against them. We are proud of what you do. Thank you, peter
Being careful is a waste ot time if Trump gains complete control, after rigged 2028 elections, as he will go after everyone who has ever opposed him, anyone who even could oppose him.Will a world dominated by fascist America, Russia, China, India spreading to Europe and Canda, would it be worth living in?
The only consolation is he is going to be 80, and if we the people keep doing protest against him, sooner or later it all comes to an end. Just like Hitler, and his cronies they all fell right along with him.
It's unlikely that people calling their Senators will stop some version of the plan to create and declare an emergency, although everyone everywhere should be picking up the phone right now. Our best hope may be the end of Putin's regime and of his war suddenly. His removal could cause a major shift and leave Trump hanging out there without his primary booster. I am somewhat hopeful that it could happen.
If you don't try...it WON"T happen.
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.
William,the only thing we can do nearterm is to hope the No Kings rally on March 28 brings out more than in the past.8 million @ the last but the #s do not tell the real story.76 million voted for Harris,8 million @ the rallies,leaves 67 million DEMS who do not particpate. There are legitimate reasons some do not particpate,physical impairments,not near rallies but that does apply to all 67 million. There is absolutly no reason why 20-25 million cannot get the rallies.If not now,when?
Hope is an anesthetic, hopium is hope and opium, it dulls the senses, encourages passivity, acceptance of your fate. I think of those millions of Jews, who had hope when they climbed aboard the box cars.
The guy who said in 1933, that Hitler fellow, can't be that bad.
The poor immigrant who shows up for a hearing with a judge, only to be whisked away by masked and armed thugs., and those poor victims who couldn't believe that they would be killed by there fellow citizens, for exercising their first amendment right.
How about the forlorn hope that the Mueller report would bring down Trump, or the forlorn Hope that the Documents case would bring down Trump, or the E Jean Carroll case, or the tax fraud case, or his impeachments, and now we are being told to believe that if, and that is a big if, Pam Bondi will betray her master and release the whole unredacated Epstein files, we will bring down Trump
At some point you realize that you are chasing bait at the end of a string, and every time you get close it is pulled away.. because the last thing that THEY want, the thing that THEY fire, is pissed off populace. and I mean French 1789 sty;e [ossed pff. So they string us along
If demonstrations 28 March are big enough and wide spread enough maybe that will scare off a few would-be vote fixers.
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.
Expect it and be ready!