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Thom, I think we're simpatico. I say Biden/Harris should use the Court's "Supreme Immunity" to stop Trump by executive action.

"By promising to pardon the January 6th, 2020 insurrectionists, Trump implicitly promises to free future criminals, traitors, assassins and terrorists. And too, he encourages any malefactors who target the dutiful public servants he intends to prosecute, or any critics of his, or any groups he despises, including women.

Thus, Trump threatens not only a military crusade against migrants and their families, but also a national rampage of criminal but pardonable violence directed against Hispanics and other targeted groups, adversaries, rivals, critics and decency defenders. Our nation can now become Nazi Germany ruled by thugs.

Can Trump also pardon the crazed hammer-wielder who attacked Paul Pelosi? Likely the concurrent state sentence would keep him imprisoned. But demented criminals tend to be vague on such details. Trump wields stochastic terror.

That’s now, before he takes power, while still on his best behavior. It’s essential that he and his vengeful nihilists must not be turned loose with backing from his subservient Cabinet, military, judicial and security parasites. His entire anti-American, anti-Constitutional conspiracy must be blocked, detained and held accountable, as Self-Declared Enemies of the American State.

(That is the self-evident crime of lawless or violent individuals who conspire to obstruct and dissolve government institutions or assist harm by foreign enemies, as opposed to merely modifying or adding policies or expanding programs. Trump’s second transition cabal has already transgressed these limits by far.)

I submit that vigorous executive action will not increase threats and reactions from malcontent Americans, but rather restrain and silence them. A firm, justified government crackdown will make us all safer, if we can overcome Russian and Australian/Fox subversion as well as Sinclair Media sedition.

I'm breaking legal ground here with the "Self-Declared Enemy of the State" thing.

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I'm glad to hear it. In my view the 2024 election was a tie. With dollar dumps by billionaires, Citizens United dark and foreign money, campaign lies and threats, polling place interference, provisional ballots uncounted, deepfake ads and bomb scares, Democracy was disabled.

How did North Carolina vote all down the ballot for Democrats (except the Auditor that the outgoing Republicans have now crowned King) and yet vote in Trump at the top of the ballot? Romania just voided their election after 85,000 Russian hack attacks.

In any case, this 2nd Trump Transition to Terror is not a valid outcome, it's a surrender to a foreign enemy and it must not stand.

They now worry that Trump/Musk tariffs, migrant roundups, Federal layoffs and their demolition of government programs, might have "unintended consequences" that crash the US and world economy. New Flash: That is the INTENDED consequence for Musk, Putin and the oligarchs, to bring America to its knees before Russia and China, and create a fire sale for billionaires to buy up the world. No way this "transition" devastation can be allowed.

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Exactly.. And hopefully this article isn't just wishful thinking.

Many cybersecurity experts have uncovered a number of nafarious incidents, mostly from Musk, which automatically includes Russian.

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