What possible national security emergency could Trump declare? That he might be held accountable by a Democratic majority for his many massive crimes? There is a national emergency all right, but only a fair election can remedy it, by voting out Trump's enabling flunkies.
more likley he will manufacture a threat from 'China, saying they have hacked into voting machines in Detroit, Texas, Maine, NYC, and places in CA. Or anywhere else that he imagines.
He may use Iran war as a security crisis - if he hasn’t started a war with anyone else by then.
There’s always Cuba, but Russia or China would have to be involved, I would think, to make that a sufficient emergency.
Alternatively, he could turn some sort of protest into a violent insurgency - or provoke something he calls an insurgency. He’s already declared the Democrats dangerous communists.
He has quite an active mind when it comes to his enemies.
True, but unfortunately, this says as much about the Democrats as it does the Republicans. Steal from me once... twice... three times, for God's sake, shame on me.
By nature, people who respect humanity and ethics are less good at being vicious, violent liars.
While it is very frustrating, and we need them to be tough and clever and strong, we would not wish for them to be as good liars and criminals as Trump and his gang.
Then there would be nobody to vote for.
I worry that condemning the Democrats as being to blame for Trump and his gang discourages people for voting for them. Many may just give up and not vote at all.
It does not seem fair or wise, for that matter, to equate the two parties as being equally responsible for the mess.
They, the Democrats, are not as bad as the GOP because nobody could be. Our system is built on money and who spreads most of it around, which only attracts the worst. Policy is not even considered nor are ethics or common decency. We need a complete makeover in this country. Having said that, we need to begin to participate actively in our Nation’s governance, to scrutinize our candidates and to hold them to standards that support the continuation our country to its highest ideals along with a planet we can all thrive upon.
Why do the Dems let this happen, over and over again?? If it was the other way around the GOP would have fought back and warned the public how corrupt the Dems were.. Trump never honestly won an election he stole the first one with help of the Russians, tried to steal the 2nd and stole the 3rd. Trump's campaign was in the dumps in the end, Kamala had much bigger crowds until Trump hired Musk (who claimed on the Tucker Carlton show that hacking voting machines is very easy). bomb scares, burning drops boxes, kicking voters of the voting list etc.
Trump was bragging during a rally "if I had not cheated, I would not be your president, Elon knows a lot about voting machines that is why I won Pennsylvania". There was never a response from the Dems. The GOP exploits the weakness of the Dems who want to look squeaky clean.
The GOP got rid of Graham Platner, Al Franken, Elliot Spitzer etc. all with the same sexual allegations while the GOP is rife with sex offenders and pedophiles who are much worse especially Trump. The new GOP campaign is calling all liberal Dems "communists".
Anybody else who has a ghost in their closet will be pushed out by the GOP and the Dems alike, but the GOP will defend the indefensible for their own candidates.
We are now up to our neck in authoritarianism, it will take decades to fix, unfortunately global warming is getting much worse thanks to Trump (he paid 4 billion to have the windmills destroyed. We are digging our own graves, our kids have no future , all we have is a handful of liberals and Bernie to fight for us. Of course Trump and MAGA will do everything they can to
disrupt the election and they have the media and the Supreme Court on their hand
IMO Democrats are weak, for years they have been begging for votes, the leadership, the consulting class of the party are beholden to the moneyed class, for income, status, and prestige. that is until they become irrelevant.
And the insurgency doesn't help, immature they smell a little shift in the public, win a minor victory and then behave like momentum is on their side, mis reading and misjudging the public
Take the primaries in Minnesota and Wisconsin, both terrified the DNC. Despite the fact that he is a practicing Muslim, Sayed has a chance in the General because he is culturally a conservative and not a threat to the status quo.
In Wisconsin, Hong clicked a middle finger at cultural norms, wanted to defund the police, and stupidly went on to suggest abolishing thanksgiving, and saying that white folk, including her own grandson, made her sick.
How fucking stupid can you be.? If these are personal opinions, then keep them to yourself.
The problem is the same as in 2016, people with myopia would rather win a primary than win a general election.
Hong never could have won the general election. At least Crowley has a chance, and if Crowley is archaeologically flawed. at least he isn't a Trump humping Republican and has a chance.. Hong never had a chance..
Running for office is a great money-making scheme. Very profitable, if you can get that good corporate moola. So, you're right, winning a primary and then RUNNING in the general is the main goal, winning the general is just a bonus (if you REALLY want to become a multi-millionaire or billionaire, win the office and then rake in the bribes).
Perhaps you have noticed that the vast majority of politicians, not all of course, are lawyers or at least people with law degrees. Why then since a lawyer makes at least a salary in the high 6 figures. and a congress critter hauls in about $174,000 per year
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives can voluntarily claim a per diem reimbursement of up to $79 a day for meals and incidental expenses when the House is in session or when committees have official meetings in Washington, D.C..
Members of Congress do not receive a fixed, flat-rate allowance; instead, personal office budgets average $1.8 million to $2 million annually for Representatives and range from $4.3 million to $6.6 million for Senators, depending on their home state's population and distance from Washington, D.C.These funds are distributed through the Members' Representational Allowance (MRA) in the House and the Senators' Official Personnel and Office Expense Account (SOPOEA) in the Senate. Lawmakers are granted broad discretion to shift funds between staff, travel, and office expenses as they see fit, but the baseline allocations are determined by specific components:
Thus they can eat out and drink at the bar and charge the expense to the taxpayer
$174,000 is not enough to support two households, and a wardrobe that can accommodate cocktail parties and functions., especially when one household is in D.C.
The one thing that is different about November is that it is midterm. That greatly enables a divide-and-conquer strategy to steal the election even with a Blue wave. To impeach the most corrupt president in US history, Dems will need majorities in both houses. Since we are talking about Senators and Legislators, corruption can get messy, and Trump and his cronies could pounce on states where they are most vulnerable to try to maintain their majority. That could include 50 state National Guard units. MAGAs are already trying, with some success, to replace election officials with Trump-toadie election deniers. If you want more Red votes, just disappear a few boxes of Blue mailed ballots while officials look out the window. Slow processing voters so the line is 3 hours long, or maybe start a few fights with frustrated waiting voters to call in the Guard or police (Sheriffs especially - they are all MAGAs), and nobody can count the votes in that district.
This is a very sad state.The "Nazis" have taken over and people go about their busiess as if everything is just fine. I think we all on this substack and others have miscaculated the extent of the support for the "Nazi" model
All but 3 states have Early Voting. Republicans want to shrink everything down to one day, so that they can disrupt and steal elections.
The BEST option this time around is to VOTE EARLY. If you get a mail-in ballot, deposit it in a ballot drop box, or hand it to the Registrar. Yeah, we all love the Tradition of Voting on Voting Day-- but this year, that is a vulnerability.
The Second Best option is to EDUCATE yourself about your state's rules. There are undoubtedly plenty of them. If you're in a Red state, your vote is at considerable risk, and that's a reason to commit to fighting to the end.
Please, do not catastrophize. It only spreads despair, and that's exactly what these thugs want. Indivisible.org is running Hands Off Our Votes! training. Targeting 7 red states.There might be a connection for you there. ACLU, NAACP, and many other orgs are working on all these voting-related issues.
Actually, you can impeach with a majority of just the house. But you can't remove without the Senate, and that takes two-thirds. Never gonna happen. All Dems will be able to do is tie things up, and perform endless investigations and hearings like they did in 2019-20, which the public grew weary of really fast.
Question: How can anyone prepare for inappropriate or unconstitutional Supreme Court intervention such as occurred in 2000? Other than teams of attorneys ready to file briefs and appeals, what can be done? Post cards to the six right-wing justices demanding they follow the Constitution? Letters to the editor? Protests on the steps of the court? We definitely must have a stronger response than we had in 2000 to their shenanigans.
What bothers me about Bush V Gore is that Gore didn't fight hard enough, they should have marshaled their own counter Brooks Brothers demonstrators and beat them back, even if it meant a fist fight.
I felt a sign of relief from the DNC when it ruled in favor of Bush, I felt that same sign of relief when Kamala conceded at 5 pm on Nov 6, while votes were still being counted, and we knew at the time that there was voter fraud at least in PA, FL and NY.
As someone who actually spent 15 years working on election campaigns, when I lived in Florida, everything from local state legislative campaigns all the way to Presidential campaigns, I can tell you that Al Gore did all he could short of starting a civil war to have the uncounted Florida votes counted. It was the rest of the Democratic party leadership who wouldn't fight. I'll remember out past eternity then DNC chair Ed Rendell very publicly urging Al Gore to give up his fight to have the uncounted Florida votes counted. I'll equally remember that not 1 U.S. Senate democrat would co-sponsor the Congressional Black Caucus's challenge to the fraudulent Florida vote count because they all hid in their cushy, ivory Washington towers like cowards. It's long past due to put the blame where it really belongs. In addition, the Bush/GOP Brooks Brothers riot interfered with the legal Florida vote count in Miami-Dade county. Interfering with a legal vote count was a violation of both Florida and federal election law in 2000. No one from the Brooks Brothers riot was ever prosecuted for violating these laws. The list of violations of Florida law by the Bush brothers, their surrogates both in Florida and nationally is too long for this response. No one should ever forget that the Rehnquist 5 shredded the constitution in order to install Bush against the will of the people.
I want to thank Thom for continui8ng to shine a light on this important story that the corporate media still refuses to tell. The Jeb/Harris felon purge and the Brooks Brothers riot are the tip of the iceberg as to what really happened. There would be no Trump today without Bush/Florida 2000.
Gore sensed that the right-wing fanatics were not going to take no for an answer and that the battle was lost and the cause was hopeless at that point, in my estimation. There has to be a committed and organized resistance in advance that demonstrates the will to fight and the devotion to core values on a par with those on the right. The Supreme Court needs to receive an unmistakable message that the people have had all they are going to take and that their corruption will not be tolerated any longer. They do not read letters, I am told, but they may see what is on a post card and they may hear certain voices if they are loud enough and repeated often enough.
Just as the MAGA relish "owning the Libs," so too, do all of the other Republicans relish the opportunity to own the Dems, so the more requests and pleas they get from their political adversaries, the better they like it - and the greater pleasure would they get for not cooperating or complying. It is naive, for example, to even consider that Chief Justice John Roberts, who wrecked the Voting Rights Bill and promoted wholesale bribery in Congress, should be eager to help right those situations, yet I get e-mails all of the time asking me to contribute for just those purposes - or at least, for the former.
Think way outside the box. Think like a Russian. Like Putie Pie, to be exact.
Putie Pie may order DT, aka Airport Catered Chicken à l’orange, aka Queens Fats, to go old-school Ruski style:
In the 1917 Constituent Assembly election, when the Bolsheviks lost, they abolished the Assembly.
The only fully free national election in Russia before the 1990s was the 1917 Constituent Assembly election.
The Socialist Revolutionaries (SRs) won a clear majority.
Lenin and the Bolsheviks, who came in second, disbanded the Assembly by force in January 1918.
So, if Birdie = Congress . . . It'd be "Bye Bye Birdie." No Congress. They'd be fired like Comey. Disbanded like a Vegas Nickelback cover band made up of Spineless Mental-Midgets.
Hello, Rule by ONE. To wit: One Full-Diapered, Smelly, Mangy, Bruise-Mottled, Obtuse Kook.
I feel like we are already in a complete national breakdown. The tiny bright lights feel drowned out by the constant daily horrors of the massively wealthy class of power hungry oligarchs.
I don't have the energy or the time to do all that.I feel I want in regards to helping prepare for these elections. Can you recommend organizations that I can choose to donate to that are doing the work I am not?
Yesterday, an election-protection initiative I'm involved in sat down with our district's state Senator. It was a productive session.
I doubt there is a Blue state that is not already well along in preparing for Republican dirty tricks, at least in preparing the legal documents to *react* to assaults. I've been reading about this cooperation for many months now. The AGs aren't all "moderates" and they aren't stupid.
After the meeting-- we got our biggest ask-- I realized that there's only one way I can feel reassured. It involves a careful defense of polling places and personnel, and convoys of TANKS to take the canvassed ballots to be certified and stored secretly under guard until we restore sanity.
Martha, the once-GOP is in a mass psychosis. Their judgement is 100% unreliable. I don't care who they 'trust.' I want them to fear the consequences of trying any more stunts.
You can also bet that the Repukes will pay hundreds of millions to third party hacks to dilute the Dem vote in many of the key races. And they will fund Jill Stein in 2028. She gave us tRump in 2016, just like Nader gave us GWB in 2000.
"If Trump tries to claim a national emergency — even if it has a real basis, like Iran hitting us hard or some other 9/11-type event."
My understanding is that 9/11 was a false flag event. This has been extensively researched. (Of course, I could be wrong about this). We need to become informed about the use of false flags throughout history. They can be quite effective and another one occurring before the election could be an October surprise (or earlier).
I understand that it's a judgment call re- whether Thom calls this out. Even if not, it is important not to imply that false flag attacks do not occur.
What possible national security emergency could Trump declare? That he might be held accountable by a Democratic majority for his many massive crimes? There is a national emergency all right, but only a fair election can remedy it, by voting out Trump's enabling flunkies.
more likley he will manufacture a threat from 'China, saying they have hacked into voting machines in Detroit, Texas, Maine, NYC, and places in CA. Or anywhere else that he imagines.
He may use Iran war as a security crisis - if he hasn’t started a war with anyone else by then.
There’s always Cuba, but Russia or China would have to be involved, I would think, to make that a sufficient emergency.
Alternatively, he could turn some sort of protest into a violent insurgency - or provoke something he calls an insurgency. He’s already declared the Democrats dangerous communists.
He has quite an active mind when it comes to his enemies.
It doesn't have to be believable.
Right!
Republicans can’t win elections on their policies, so they steal them and are never held to account.
True, but unfortunately, this says as much about the Democrats as it does the Republicans. Steal from me once... twice... three times, for God's sake, shame on me.
By nature, people who respect humanity and ethics are less good at being vicious, violent liars.
While it is very frustrating, and we need them to be tough and clever and strong, we would not wish for them to be as good liars and criminals as Trump and his gang.
Then there would be nobody to vote for.
I worry that condemning the Democrats as being to blame for Trump and his gang discourages people for voting for them. Many may just give up and not vote at all.
It does not seem fair or wise, for that matter, to equate the two parties as being equally responsible for the mess.
They, the Democrats, are not as bad as the GOP because nobody could be. Our system is built on money and who spreads most of it around, which only attracts the worst. Policy is not even considered nor are ethics or common decency. We need a complete makeover in this country. Having said that, we need to begin to participate actively in our Nation’s governance, to scrutinize our candidates and to hold them to standards that support the continuation our country to its highest ideals along with a planet we can all thrive upon.
Agreed, but it will be a disaster if the Democrats, such as they are, do not get control of Congress.
There is not much time left to get the situation under control.
You’re not wrong, Ken!
Why do the Dems let this happen, over and over again?? If it was the other way around the GOP would have fought back and warned the public how corrupt the Dems were.. Trump never honestly won an election he stole the first one with help of the Russians, tried to steal the 2nd and stole the 3rd. Trump's campaign was in the dumps in the end, Kamala had much bigger crowds until Trump hired Musk (who claimed on the Tucker Carlton show that hacking voting machines is very easy). bomb scares, burning drops boxes, kicking voters of the voting list etc.
Trump was bragging during a rally "if I had not cheated, I would not be your president, Elon knows a lot about voting machines that is why I won Pennsylvania". There was never a response from the Dems. The GOP exploits the weakness of the Dems who want to look squeaky clean.
The GOP got rid of Graham Platner, Al Franken, Elliot Spitzer etc. all with the same sexual allegations while the GOP is rife with sex offenders and pedophiles who are much worse especially Trump. The new GOP campaign is calling all liberal Dems "communists".
Anybody else who has a ghost in their closet will be pushed out by the GOP and the Dems alike, but the GOP will defend the indefensible for their own candidates.
We are now up to our neck in authoritarianism, it will take decades to fix, unfortunately global warming is getting much worse thanks to Trump (he paid 4 billion to have the windmills destroyed. We are digging our own graves, our kids have no future , all we have is a handful of liberals and Bernie to fight for us. Of course Trump and MAGA will do everything they can to
disrupt the election and they have the media and the Supreme Court on their hand
IMO Democrats are weak, for years they have been begging for votes, the leadership, the consulting class of the party are beholden to the moneyed class, for income, status, and prestige. that is until they become irrelevant.
And the insurgency doesn't help, immature they smell a little shift in the public, win a minor victory and then behave like momentum is on their side, mis reading and misjudging the public
Take the primaries in Minnesota and Wisconsin, both terrified the DNC. Despite the fact that he is a practicing Muslim, Sayed has a chance in the General because he is culturally a conservative and not a threat to the status quo.
In Wisconsin, Hong clicked a middle finger at cultural norms, wanted to defund the police, and stupidly went on to suggest abolishing thanksgiving, and saying that white folk, including her own grandson, made her sick.
How fucking stupid can you be.? If these are personal opinions, then keep them to yourself.
The problem is the same as in 2016, people with myopia would rather win a primary than win a general election.
Hong never could have won the general election. At least Crowley has a chance, and if Crowley is archaeologically flawed. at least he isn't a Trump humping Republican and has a chance.. Hong never had a chance..
Running for office is a great money-making scheme. Very profitable, if you can get that good corporate moola. So, you're right, winning a primary and then RUNNING in the general is the main goal, winning the general is just a bonus (if you REALLY want to become a multi-millionaire or billionaire, win the office and then rake in the bribes).
Perhaps you have noticed that the vast majority of politicians, not all of course, are lawyers or at least people with law degrees. Why then since a lawyer makes at least a salary in the high 6 figures. and a congress critter hauls in about $174,000 per year
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives can voluntarily claim a per diem reimbursement of up to $79 a day for meals and incidental expenses when the House is in session or when committees have official meetings in Washington, D.C..
Members of Congress do not receive a fixed, flat-rate allowance; instead, personal office budgets average $1.8 million to $2 million annually for Representatives and range from $4.3 million to $6.6 million for Senators, depending on their home state's population and distance from Washington, D.C.These funds are distributed through the Members' Representational Allowance (MRA) in the House and the Senators' Official Personnel and Office Expense Account (SOPOEA) in the Senate. Lawmakers are granted broad discretion to shift funds between staff, travel, and office expenses as they see fit, but the baseline allocations are determined by specific components:
Thus they can eat out and drink at the bar and charge the expense to the taxpayer
$174,000 is not enough to support two households, and a wardrobe that can accommodate cocktail parties and functions., especially when one household is in D.C.
my excuses for the typo's
The one thing that is different about November is that it is midterm. That greatly enables a divide-and-conquer strategy to steal the election even with a Blue wave. To impeach the most corrupt president in US history, Dems will need majorities in both houses. Since we are talking about Senators and Legislators, corruption can get messy, and Trump and his cronies could pounce on states where they are most vulnerable to try to maintain their majority. That could include 50 state National Guard units. MAGAs are already trying, with some success, to replace election officials with Trump-toadie election deniers. If you want more Red votes, just disappear a few boxes of Blue mailed ballots while officials look out the window. Slow processing voters so the line is 3 hours long, or maybe start a few fights with frustrated waiting voters to call in the Guard or police (Sheriffs especially - they are all MAGAs), and nobody can count the votes in that district.
This is a very sad state.The "Nazis" have taken over and people go about their busiess as if everything is just fine. I think we all on this substack and others have miscaculated the extent of the support for the "Nazi" model
Agree! Let’s stay focused on the real enemy here and work hard to help the Democrats get in.
All but 3 states have Early Voting. Republicans want to shrink everything down to one day, so that they can disrupt and steal elections.
The BEST option this time around is to VOTE EARLY. If you get a mail-in ballot, deposit it in a ballot drop box, or hand it to the Registrar. Yeah, we all love the Tradition of Voting on Voting Day-- but this year, that is a vulnerability.
The Second Best option is to EDUCATE yourself about your state's rules. There are undoubtedly plenty of them. If you're in a Red state, your vote is at considerable risk, and that's a reason to commit to fighting to the end.
Please, do not catastrophize. It only spreads despair, and that's exactly what these thugs want. Indivisible.org is running Hands Off Our Votes! training. Targeting 7 red states.There might be a connection for you there. ACLU, NAACP, and many other orgs are working on all these voting-related issues.
Very wise!
Actually, you can impeach with a majority of just the house. But you can't remove without the Senate, and that takes two-thirds. Never gonna happen. All Dems will be able to do is tie things up, and perform endless investigations and hearings like they did in 2019-20, which the public grew weary of really fast.
So the key is to work to get more Democrats in.
Question: How can anyone prepare for inappropriate or unconstitutional Supreme Court intervention such as occurred in 2000? Other than teams of attorneys ready to file briefs and appeals, what can be done? Post cards to the six right-wing justices demanding they follow the Constitution? Letters to the editor? Protests on the steps of the court? We definitely must have a stronger response than we had in 2000 to their shenanigans.
What bothers me about Bush V Gore is that Gore didn't fight hard enough, they should have marshaled their own counter Brooks Brothers demonstrators and beat them back, even if it meant a fist fight.
I felt a sign of relief from the DNC when it ruled in favor of Bush, I felt that same sign of relief when Kamala conceded at 5 pm on Nov 6, while votes were still being counted, and we knew at the time that there was voter fraud at least in PA, FL and NY.
We need fighters.
As someone who actually spent 15 years working on election campaigns, when I lived in Florida, everything from local state legislative campaigns all the way to Presidential campaigns, I can tell you that Al Gore did all he could short of starting a civil war to have the uncounted Florida votes counted. It was the rest of the Democratic party leadership who wouldn't fight. I'll remember out past eternity then DNC chair Ed Rendell very publicly urging Al Gore to give up his fight to have the uncounted Florida votes counted. I'll equally remember that not 1 U.S. Senate democrat would co-sponsor the Congressional Black Caucus's challenge to the fraudulent Florida vote count because they all hid in their cushy, ivory Washington towers like cowards. It's long past due to put the blame where it really belongs. In addition, the Bush/GOP Brooks Brothers riot interfered with the legal Florida vote count in Miami-Dade county. Interfering with a legal vote count was a violation of both Florida and federal election law in 2000. No one from the Brooks Brothers riot was ever prosecuted for violating these laws. The list of violations of Florida law by the Bush brothers, their surrogates both in Florida and nationally is too long for this response. No one should ever forget that the Rehnquist 5 shredded the constitution in order to install Bush against the will of the people.
I want to thank Thom for continui8ng to shine a light on this important story that the corporate media still refuses to tell. The Jeb/Harris felon purge and the Brooks Brothers riot are the tip of the iceberg as to what really happened. There would be no Trump today without Bush/Florida 2000.
Thanks for the insight. I know that Al fought. and I agree that the problem is with the DNC, the analysis, the consultants
Parasites.
Gore sensed that the right-wing fanatics were not going to take no for an answer and that the battle was lost and the cause was hopeless at that point, in my estimation. There has to be a committed and organized resistance in advance that demonstrates the will to fight and the devotion to core values on a par with those on the right. The Supreme Court needs to receive an unmistakable message that the people have had all they are going to take and that their corruption will not be tolerated any longer. They do not read letters, I am told, but they may see what is on a post card and they may hear certain voices if they are loud enough and repeated often enough.
Just as the MAGA relish "owning the Libs," so too, do all of the other Republicans relish the opportunity to own the Dems, so the more requests and pleas they get from their political adversaries, the better they like it - and the greater pleasure would they get for not cooperating or complying. It is naive, for example, to even consider that Chief Justice John Roberts, who wrecked the Voting Rights Bill and promoted wholesale bribery in Congress, should be eager to help right those situations, yet I get e-mails all of the time asking me to contribute for just those purposes - or at least, for the former.
Worth trying.
Maybe if things get serious enough a mass uprising could occupy and close down the SCOTUS.
Incredibly IMPORTANT to SHARE!
We are facing an impending onslaught of bull about election fraud. Get ready!
How do you "get ready" for that?
1. Make sure you are registered to vote at vote.org. 2. Talk to your neighbors about voting. 3. Fact check everything and share your findings.
Think way outside the box. Think like a Russian. Like Putie Pie, to be exact.
Putie Pie may order DT, aka Airport Catered Chicken à l’orange, aka Queens Fats, to go old-school Ruski style:
In the 1917 Constituent Assembly election, when the Bolsheviks lost, they abolished the Assembly.
The only fully free national election in Russia before the 1990s was the 1917 Constituent Assembly election.
The Socialist Revolutionaries (SRs) won a clear majority.
Lenin and the Bolsheviks, who came in second, disbanded the Assembly by force in January 1918.
So, if Birdie = Congress . . . It'd be "Bye Bye Birdie." No Congress. They'd be fired like Comey. Disbanded like a Vegas Nickelback cover band made up of Spineless Mental-Midgets.
Hello, Rule by ONE. To wit: One Full-Diapered, Smelly, Mangy, Bruise-Mottled, Obtuse Kook.
#VOTE to deflate the "Stable Genius"
#DRAFT Barron [wherever he is]
I feel like we are already in a complete national breakdown. The tiny bright lights feel drowned out by the constant daily horrors of the massively wealthy class of power hungry oligarchs.
I don't have the energy or the time to do all that.I feel I want in regards to helping prepare for these elections. Can you recommend organizations that I can choose to donate to that are doing the work I am not?
Yesterday, an election-protection initiative I'm involved in sat down with our district's state Senator. It was a productive session.
I doubt there is a Blue state that is not already well along in preparing for Republican dirty tricks, at least in preparing the legal documents to *react* to assaults. I've been reading about this cooperation for many months now. The AGs aren't all "moderates" and they aren't stupid.
After the meeting-- we got our biggest ask-- I realized that there's only one way I can feel reassured. It involves a careful defense of polling places and personnel, and convoys of TANKS to take the canvassed ballots to be certified and stored secretly under guard until we restore sanity.
Who will be the Guard who is trusted by both parties?
Martha, the once-GOP is in a mass psychosis. Their judgement is 100% unreliable. I don't care who they 'trust.' I want them to fear the consequences of trying any more stunts.
Yes. I’m with you.
But they could use the process itself as proof of election fraud.
You can also bet that the Repukes will pay hundreds of millions to third party hacks to dilute the Dem vote in many of the key races. And they will fund Jill Stein in 2028. She gave us tRump in 2016, just like Nader gave us GWB in 2000.
"If Trump tries to claim a national emergency — even if it has a real basis, like Iran hitting us hard or some other 9/11-type event."
My understanding is that 9/11 was a false flag event. This has been extensively researched. (Of course, I could be wrong about this). We need to become informed about the use of false flags throughout history. They can be quite effective and another one occurring before the election could be an October surprise (or earlier).
I understand that it's a judgment call re- whether Thom calls this out. Even if not, it is important not to imply that false flag attacks do not occur.